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"Is Reason Itself Reliable?" (Part ∞)
Jun. 8th, 2014 02:38 amI just spent several hours on Twitter arguing with a Randian Objectivist and what I THINK were two specimens of the rare wild Logical Positivist, about compassion, "human nature," and the foundations/mechanisms of knowledge.
Two of the three conversation threads culminated amicably enough, but One of them ACTUALLY SAID to me, "you can't dispute reason. By using what standard? Reason is the only standard." My hand to g-d, that's a direct quote. Like, the irony of that kind of circularity in a system which just WAITS to call "Question-Begging" just went WHOOSH! Right over his head.
So of Course i end the night with links to papers on contradiction and paraconsistent logics, 'The Buddha Eye,' several readings on feminist epistemology, and the reminder to Mr "Only Standard" that reason is only one standard of many, and that they were arguing from a single, Western perspective.
Because That's How I Roll.
Goodnight.
Two of the three conversation threads culminated amicably enough, but One of them ACTUALLY SAID to me, "you can't dispute reason. By using what standard? Reason is the only standard." My hand to g-d, that's a direct quote. Like, the irony of that kind of circularity in a system which just WAITS to call "Question-Begging" just went WHOOSH! Right over his head.
So of Course i end the night with links to papers on contradiction and paraconsistent logics, 'The Buddha Eye,' several readings on feminist epistemology, and the reminder to Mr "Only Standard" that reason is only one standard of many, and that they were arguing from a single, Western perspective.
Because That's How I Roll.
Goodnight.
