Posted on 08/29/2016 11:51:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
What is the root or basis of the battle?
Simple. It's epistemological and psychological: truth vs. ideology and facts vs. feelings.
Is there such a thing as truth or facts? Do we let ideology warp truth? Do we let feelings triumph over truth and facts?
The left employs six tactics to win the battle.
The first is to deny that facts and truth exist. Nietzsche:
Everything is Interpretation: ... Against those who say "There are only facts," I say, "No, facts are precisely what there is not, only interpretations." We cannot establish any fact in itself. Perhaps it is folly to want to do such a thing. (Quoted in Louis P. Pojman, Classics of Philosophy, Oxford UP, 1998, pp. 1015-16, emphasis original.)This is hyper-skepticism that has morphed nowadays into postmodernism. It's called perspectivism. We have only our point of view or worldview. Now let's fight for our corner, not so much for the truth.
Postmodernism is dominant today. It's powerful. If we deny facts, then the traditionalists' positions crumble. It's all about challenging the old ways – or truths – that have stood the test of time.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Is it a fact, Nietsche, that there are no facts?
Such assertions undermine themselves.
He is trying to evade having to admit that there are good and bad interpretations of things.
Part 1, Chapter 6: The Non-Commercial
This article covers a lot of the territory that was covered at Hank Rearden's anniversary party, particularly by Balph Eubank, Claude Slagenhop, Bertram Scudder and especially Dr. Simon Pritchett.
The author is correct but reversing the trend that is going in the wrong direction will easier said than done.
It’s a peculiarity of PoMo. Nothing means anything so that everything dissolves. Yet, strangely, PoMo does not dissolve with it. No thanks. It’s a bankrupt philosophy trotted out because, well there always has to be something new.
Look at painting. When it got to be perfect, ie, photographic in representation, where do you go from there? How do you impose ‘newness’ on perfection? Well, you move away from the ‘facts’ and go impressionist and finally, abstract. The facts remain, but one is supposedly entertained anew by slewing away from reality. PoMo is the same thing. And I have as much respect for it as for the talentless crap that passes for poetry today, paintings indistinguishable from animal swiping, and the arrogance of referring to great literature as merely ‘text.’
See America--Grounded On Experience & Reason.
By contrast, all Leftist movements pursue "wish lists," aimed not at building on past experience, but rather seeking to substitute what they wish was true for what is
Of course, it never works out well.
This was the rage on Mars Hill when Paul came to it in Athens. Find something new to say even if it makes no sense.
I remember reading an engravement onto the wood panel of a study carrel that said, “Change for the sake of change is the ideology of a cancer cell.”
On the same carrel was the less memorable, “This wood is lovely, but it’s dead.”
“We cannot establish any facts in themselves.”
Is that a fact?
If the pomos can deny facts at will, why can’t we just deny the pomos?
Sorry, guys, but you don’t get to negate reality just because in your philosophy it doesn’t exist.
Why not?
Because your negation of reality is no more valid than my adherence to it.
Political Correctness was designed by the Communists/Bolsheiks to control the narrative because they knew their ideas would be rejected by the truth being known and discussed.
Ah! Yes, I should think the visit to the emergency room might imply to the intelligent that there's a flaw in the theory that everything is subjective. The world is replete with lessons such as that. Are there, then, no facts? Well, no facts that one can deny, if one is capable of ignoring the cast on one's foot. No undeniable facts - but then that is a function of the denier, not the facts. In that sense, subjectivity reigns, but then it hurts like a bitch, doesn't it? And that's a fact.
Really, in a less pampered time this discussion wouldn't merit the time taken to type it. It is not "feelings" that are intended to trump fact, but fantasies. We all have them. Some of them are fatal.
Sorry, “no facts that one can deny” should be “no facts that one cannot deny”. I blame my proofreader.
The real difference between the Founder’s understanding of reality and that of the pursuers of ideology over reality, was that the Founders grounded their values on the actual experiences of the generations of settlers, who came before them.
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Many scientists have looked upon Galileo as the father of modern science. Galileo, said Einstein, “saw that pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts with experience and ends in it.”
Is this even SPOKEN of any more??
Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Philippians 2:5
Seems as though Something very important got left out here...
“A time will come...
Everyone with intelligence greater than a lichen on a rock, knows that we are not all equal; not interchangeable; and that the best "idealism," starts with trying to help the beings your are dealing with, never putting square pegs into round holes--or the human equivalents of such engineering.
I feel as if Ineed to read it all over again - round III, since we’re living it.
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