Terrapin Station wrote: ↑June 29th, 2021, 3:38 pmConsul wrote: ↑June 29th, 2021, 9:26 am…and we end up with epistemic subjectivism
Which is all you can get. Epistemic objectivism is a category error.
No, the methods of science provide objective criteria of truth; truth is essential to knowledge and it's an objectivistic category. So-called "subjective truth" is just belief: what is true for me is what I believe (to be true).
Subjective certainty is the absence of doubt, maximal conviction. Objective certainty is the absence of possible error; but if my belief-justifying evidence for p doesn't eliminate all possibilities in which ~p, then I cannot be objectively certain that my belief that p is knowledge.
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"Mr B. Erdmann equates truth with general validity, grounding the latter on general certainty regarding the object judged, and this in turn on general consensus amongst those judging. And so, in the end, truth is reduced to being taken to be true by individuals. In opposition to this, I can only say: being true is different from being taken to be true, be it by one, be it by many, be it by all, and is in no way reducible to it. It is no contradiction that something is true that is universally held to be false."
(pp. xv-xvi)
"Can the sense of the word 'true' be subjected to a more damaging corruption than by the attempt to incorporate a relation to the judging subject!"
(p. xvi)
(Frege, Gottlob.
Basic Laws of Arithmetics, Vol. 1. 1893. In
Basic Laws of Arithmetics, Vols. 1&2, translated and edited by Philip A. Ebert and Marcus Rosenberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.)
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Terrapin Station wrote: ↑June 29th, 2021, 3:38 pmConsul wrote: ↑June 29th, 2021, 9:26 am
…and relativism (as we find it it postmodernism)
Well, relativism is what the world is like.
The postmodernists from the Woke faction think so too; and that's why they speak relativistically of a plurality of group-relative "knowledges" rather than of knowledge.
"Many postmodernists hold one or more of the following views: (1) there is no objective reality; (2) there is no scientific or historical truth (objective truth); (3) science and technology (and even reason and logic) are not vehicles of human progress but suspect instruments of established power; (4) reason and logic are not universally valid; (5) there is no such thing as human nature (human behavior and psychology are socially determined or constructed); (6) language does not refer to a reality outside itself; (7) there is no certain knowledge; and (8) no general theory of the natural or social world can be valid or true (all are illegitimate “metanarratives”)."
Source:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/postmo ... philosophy