Truth? What is the difference between “Correspondence” and “Reconstruction”? The first is platonic, the second operational. See? It matters
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-25 13:08:12 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/724585804887134208
Truth? What is the difference between “Correspondence” and “Reconstruction”? The first is platonic, the second operational. See? It matters
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-25 13:08:12 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/724585804887134208
Because martial epistemology = the ultimate ‘skin in the game’: If we err, we die. if we ‘color’ we die. if we lie, we die. Truth = Life.
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-25 12:53:09 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/724582017204117504
Where “reconstruction” = the sympathetic test of correspondence. The unforgiving testimony of martial epistemology. Truth or Die.
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-25 12:51:22 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/724581569495703553
Every culture uses a different method of ‘decidability’ in its truth propositions. Only the west developed the most rigid: “reconstruction”.
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-25 12:49:18 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/724581047661412352
So @nfergus correctly identifies the “killer apps”, and Hegel comes close with restlessness, the west’s cause is martial epistemology:Truth.
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-25 12:48:01 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/724580726797139969
It is not that Socrates=reason, and Aristotle=science, but that indo-european aristocracy”Testified” to one another, thereby creating Truth.
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-25 12:44:47 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/724579909537042436
The Germanic Secret is indo-european in origin: “I shall not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.” The west invented Truth.#NewRight
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-25 12:42:43 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/724579389674012672
And if not wishful thiking, little more than a middle class argument over the preferred division of spoils. @JonHaidt
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-25 12:40:34 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/724578848696864768
The west’s discipline of social science is conducted via the common law. Everything else appears to have been wishful thiking. @JonHaidt
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-25 12:39:47 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/724578652105662465
Because it means the academy has been selling indulgences for the better part of a century now. The MF provided the tipping point. @JonHaidt
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-25 12:33:48 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/724577147696910336