Re:Why Our Children Don't Think There Are Moral Facts
by emsy on Friday March 13, 2015 @09:38PM
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Of course I'm not nitpicking on every usage of the word, but I think it's everyone should at some point think about what knowing and reality actually is. It doesn't matter most of the time, but there are moments in history when someone wants to tell you that 2+2=5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%2B_2_%3D_5
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Re:Why Our Children Don't Think There Are Moral Facts
by Crito on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:20PM
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> "Of course I'm not nitpicking on every usage of the word"
It is great that you aren't. The issue is that the author of the article was nitpicking a non-controversial use of the word. His son's responses to him suggest to me that his son was sick of his philosophical shit and just wanted to deal with the world pragmatically. Most people have little patience for epistemology, and I find it hard to blame them.