#relativism — Public Fediverse posts
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Wissen und Selbstauskunft: Eine Notiz zur Grenze der Perspektive
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/wissen-und-selbstauskunft-eine-notiz
#Philosophie #Erkenntnistheorie #Perspektivismus #Kommunikation #Relationismus #Relativismus #Wissen #Denken
Knowledge and Self-Disclosure: A Note on the Limits of Perspective
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/knowledge-and-self-disclosure-a-note
#Philosophy #Epistemology #Perspectivism #Communication #Relationism #Relativism #Knowledge #Thinking
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Wissen und Selbstauskunft: Eine Notiz zur Grenze der Perspektive
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/wissen-und-selbstauskunft-eine-notiz
#Philosophie #Erkenntnistheorie #Perspektivismus #Kommunikation #Relationismus #Relativismus #Wissen #Denken
Knowledge and Self-Disclosure: A Note on the Limits of Perspective
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/knowledge-and-self-disclosure-a-note
#Philosophy #Epistemology #Perspectivism #Communication #Relationism #Relativism #Knowledge #Thinking
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i've long wanted to read a thorough, laser focused indictment of post modern theory. unfortunately that book could exist and i wouldn't know and if i did i probly wouldn't have the patience to read to the end
was just reading the intro and dedication of marc bloch's historian's craft and occurred to me that part of the reason norms and such are flying apart from what seems like centrifugal forces might be that we seem to have switched into a mode whereby history no longer has any purchase
if the record of the past is largely meaningless (or little more than a curiosity) then it doesn't matter so much what we do in the moment, whether an individual or an institution
#history #postmodernism #relativism #stopTheWorldAhWannaGetOff
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i've long wanted to read a thorough, laser focused indictment of post modern theory. unfortunately that book could exist and i wouldn't know and if i did i probly wouldn't have the patience to read to the end
was just reading the intro and dedication of marc bloch's historian's craft and occurred to me that part of the reason norms and such are flying apart from what seems like centrifugal forces might be that we seem to have switched into a mode whereby history no longer has any purchase
if the record of the past is largely meaningless (or little more than a curiosity) then it doesn't matter so much what we do in the moment, whether an individual or an institution
#history #postmodernism #relativism #stopTheWorldAhWannaGetOff
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Elevators lower ceilings. Just not their ceilings.
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Elevators lower ceilings. Just not their ceilings.
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A quotation from George Orwell
All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency. Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by ‘our’ side.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/17246/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #hypocrisy #justification #moralrelativism #motivation #nationalism #ourside #perspective #relativism #selfrighteousness #side #tribalism #tribe #usvsthem
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A quotation from George Orwell
All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency. Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by ‘our’ side.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/17246/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #hypocrisy #justification #moralrelativism #motivation #nationalism #ourside #perspective #relativism #selfrighteousness #side #tribalism #tribe #usvsthem
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Folke Tersman has revised his SEP-entry on Moral Disagreement, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/disagreement-moral/
The author on Uppsala University's pages, https://www.uu.se/en/contact-and-organisation/staff?query=N8-3
#ethics #morality #moralPhilosophy #philosophy #filosofia #etiikka #metaetiikka #metaethics #disagreement #erimielisyys #kiista #hyvä #paha #good #evil #bad #right #wrong #MorallyWrong #cognitivism #psychology #relativism #skepticism #realism #epistemology #uppsala
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Folke Tersman has revised his SEP-entry on Moral Disagreement, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/disagreement-moral/
The author on Uppsala University's pages, https://www.uu.se/en/contact-and-organisation/staff?query=N8-3
#ethics #morality #moralPhilosophy #philosophy #filosofia #etiikka #metaetiikka #metaethics #disagreement #erimielisyys #kiista #hyvä #paha #good #evil #bad #right #wrong #MorallyWrong #cognitivism #psychology #relativism #skepticism #realism #epistemology #uppsala
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Religion is relative
Order my book COSMOPOLITAN Playbook for citizens of the world ➡️ https://amzn.eu/d/1swKABw ➡️ Link in bio
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I witter on about Qualified Subjectivity. Ponder with me.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/16/qualified-subjectivism/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
Why objective reality is an anachronistic myth.
#philosophy #politics #society #culture #mediation #truth #anythinggoes #relativism #subjectivity #language #semantics #ontology #epistemology #kant #phenomena #noumena #history #intetrfaces #blog #podcast
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I witter on about Qualified Subjectivity. Ponder with me.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/16/qualified-subjectivism/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
Why objective reality is an anachronistic myth.
#philosophy #politics #society #culture #mediation #truth #anythinggoes #relativism #subjectivity #language #semantics #ontology #epistemology #kant #phenomena #noumena #history #intetrfaces #blog #podcast
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𝕐𝕠𝕦𝕣 #𝕣𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕘𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕚𝕤 𝕓𝕒𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕦𝕝𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞
ℂ𝕆𝕊𝕄𝕆ℙ𝕆𝕃𝕀𝕋𝔸ℕ
ℙ𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕓𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕗𝕠𝕣 ℂ𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕫𝕖𝕟𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕎𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕
𝕍𝕠𝕝. 1
𝔸𝕍𝔸𝕀𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕃𝔼 𝕀ℕ 𝔸𝕃𝕃 𝕆ℕ𝕃𝕀ℕ𝔼 𝕊𝕋𝕆ℝ𝔼𝕊
#ℂ𝕠𝕤𝕞𝕠𝕡𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕒𝕟 #𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕤 #ℂ𝕠𝕤𝕞𝕠𝕡𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕤𝕞 #𝕃𝕠𝕦𝕚𝕤𝔹𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕚 #ℝ𝕖𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕧𝕚𝕤𝕞
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Jane Martinson – The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack
"a political campaign against the BBC that could act as a textbook example of how to confuse and undermine the kind of journalism that is, at the very least, aiming for impartiality in a sea of spin and distortion"
#bbc #journalism #fascism #ukPol #usPol #relativism #christTheseFuckersAreAssholes
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Jane Martinson – The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack
"a political campaign against the BBC that could act as a textbook example of how to confuse and undermine the kind of journalism that is, at the very least, aiming for impartiality in a sea of spin and distortion"
#bbc #journalism #fascism #ukPol #usPol #relativism #christTheseFuckersAreAssholes
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Relativism greases the skids for illiberalism.
-- Bret Stephens (NYTimes JULY 20, 2017)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BretStephens #Illiberalism #Relativism
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah
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Relativism greases the skids for illiberalism.
-- Bret Stephens (NYTimes JULY 20, 2017)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BretStephens #Illiberalism #Relativism
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah
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We’ve never lived on granite foundations. What we call “objectivity” in social and moral life is scaffolding: provisional, rhetorical, maintained through care, reciprocity, and revolt.
In my new essay, I map an operating model for reasoning without granite illusions — and argue for an ethic of repair.
Read the full post:
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/09/24/stop-pretending-we-live-in-marble-halls/#Philosophy #Ethics #MetaEthics #PhilosophyOfScience #Epistemology #MetaPhilosophy #SocialEpistemology #CriticalTheory #Subjectivism #Relativism
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We’ve never lived on granite foundations. What we call “objectivity” in social and moral life is scaffolding: provisional, rhetorical, maintained through care, reciprocity, and revolt.
In my new essay, I map an operating model for reasoning without granite illusions — and argue for an ethic of repair.
Read the full post:
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/09/24/stop-pretending-we-live-in-marble-halls/#Philosophy #Ethics #MetaEthics #PhilosophyOfScience #Epistemology #MetaPhilosophy #SocialEpistemology #CriticalTheory #Subjectivism #Relativism
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Part 2 of Max Scheler's work Ressentiment is so short and focused, I was able to cover it in just one core concept video. Here it is!
https://youtu.be/zjo6A1x2M7g
#Video #Scheler #Ressentiment #Ethics #Morality #Systems #Values #Preference #Christianity #Bourgeois #Relativism -
Part 2 of Max Scheler's work Ressentiment is so short and focused, I was able to cover it in just one core concept video. Here it is!
https://youtu.be/zjo6A1x2M7g
#Video #Scheler #Ressentiment #Ethics #Morality #Systems #Values #Preference #Christianity #Bourgeois #Relativism -
Can a person be for #trans #rights without full #gender #relativism? I think so.
The evidence behind human cognitive processing being model-first is piling up so fast, it is hard to consider anything but the case that the person’s internal model for their gender is the primary deciding factor in how they experience the world.
However, there is a line where the human ends and the animal begins. And this is where the bets for cognitive processing also have to come off.
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Can a person be for #trans #rights without full #gender #relativism? I think so.
The evidence behind human cognitive processing being model-first is piling up so fast, it is hard to consider anything but the case that the person’s internal model for their gender is the primary deciding factor in how they experience the world.
However, there is a line where the human ends and the animal begins. And this is where the bets for cognitive processing also have to come off.
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#Truth #Relativism and its Ties to #ConspiracyTheory Beliefs: Results revealed that those believing truth to be subjective were more inclined towards conspiracy beliefs and resisting contradictory facts. This subjective truth approach paradoxically tied with dogmatism.
- Neuroscience News
https://neurosciencenews.com/truth-relativism-conspiracy-theories-23896/ ht @dangrsmind
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Aspernäs, J., Erlandsson, A., & Nilsson, A. (2023). Misperceptions in a post-truth world: Effects of subjectivism and cultural relativism on bullshit receptivity and conspiracist ideation. Journal of Research in Personality, 104394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104394 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #BehaviouralSciences #Learning #Education #Truth #Culture #Misinformation #Conspiracy #ConspiracyTheories #Theories
#Bullshit #Subjectivism #PostTruth #Relativism #Thinking #Academia #Academic #Academics -
Aspernäs, J., Erlandsson, A., & Nilsson, A. (2023). Misperceptions in a post-truth world: Effects of subjectivism and cultural relativism on bullshit receptivity and conspiracist ideation. Journal of Research in Personality, 104394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104394 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #BehaviouralSciences #Learning #Education #Truth #Culture #Misinformation #Conspiracy #ConspiracyTheories #Theories
#Bullshit #Subjectivism #PostTruth #Relativism #Thinking #Academia #Academic #Academics -
Some subjectivists and relativists need not agree to these statements from "measures" of subjectivism and relativism, raising questions about face validity. Can psychologists chat with philosophers before making scales like these?
#Subjectivism:
The truth does not exist
All subjective perceptions of a chain of events are equally true#Relativism:
It is impossible to compare different cultures beliefs about reality in terms of "correctness"From the Appendix of https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104394
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Some subjectivists and relativists need not agree to these statements from "measures" of subjectivism and relativism, raising questions about face validity. Can psychologists chat with philosophers before making scales like these?
#Subjectivism:
The truth does not exist
All subjective perceptions of a chain of events are equally true#Relativism:
It is impossible to compare different cultures beliefs about reality in terms of "correctness"From the Appendix of https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104394
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#RaymondTallis - What is #Truth?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLhTG7etzlc&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #Logic #PhilosophyOfLogic #Assertions #States #StatesOfAffairs #Belief #JTB #JustifiedTrueBelief #Pragmatism #Minimalism #Predicate #Predicates #Relativism #Noumenal #Ontological #Kant #Kantian #DingAnSich #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#RaymondTallis - What is #Truth?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLhTG7etzlc&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #Logic #PhilosophyOfLogic #Assertions #States #StatesOfAffairs #Belief #JTB #JustifiedTrueBelief #Pragmatism #Minimalism #Predicate #Predicates #Relativism #Noumenal #Ontological #Kant #Kantian #DingAnSich #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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If there is a universal moral duty to act respectfully toward individuals and cultures whose beliefs differ from your own, there is at least one universal moral duty. It is a universal moral duty that is not universally recognized.
Moral relativism and tolerance are fundamentally at odds.
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Great reading!
Self-Actualization and the Myth of Personal Growth ,
a.k.a."How the counterculture surrendered communal well-being to individual enlightenment"
https://medium.com/team-human/self-actualization-and-the-myth-of-personal-growth-67c12e5310f3
#egoism #relativism #consumerism #nichilism #flatness #harmony #senseMaking #meaning #capitalism #individualism #newAge #socialJustice
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Great reading!
Self-Actualization and the Myth of Personal Growth ,
a.k.a."How the counterculture surrendered communal well-being to individual enlightenment"
https://medium.com/team-human/self-actualization-and-the-myth-of-personal-growth-67c12e5310f3
#egoism #relativism #consumerism #nichilism #flatness #harmony #senseMaking #meaning #capitalism #individualism #newAge #socialJustice
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Stuff to know in these complex times:
Engineering Illusions Part I: Religion and Technology https://techinsider100.medium.com/engineering-illusions-part-i-religion-and-technology-c1c7714bb9de
#religion #bigTech #solutionism #meGeneration #meaning #senseMaking #flatness #innovation #siliconValley #newAge #singularity #artificialIntelligence #relativism
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Stuff to know in these complex times:
Engineering Illusions Part I: Religion and Technology https://techinsider100.medium.com/engineering-illusions-part-i-religion-and-technology-c1c7714bb9de
#religion #bigTech #solutionism #meGeneration #meaning #senseMaking #flatness #innovation #siliconValley #newAge #singularity #artificialIntelligence #relativism
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The Fantasy Of Political Intimacy, a.k.a "the dream of concord that keeps us politically stalled"
https://www.noemamag.com/the-fantasy-of-political-intimacy/ #politics #democracy #senseMaking #meaning #flatness #relativism #egoism #polarization
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The Fantasy Of Political Intimacy, a.k.a "the dream of concord that keeps us politically stalled"
https://www.noemamag.com/the-fantasy-of-political-intimacy/ #politics #democracy #senseMaking #meaning #flatness #relativism #egoism #polarization
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From 2020: #College-Educated Professionals Are #Capitalism's Useful Idiots https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/i-was-useful-idiot-capitalism/615031/ #usa #americanExceptionalism #academia #collegeBubble #inequality #relativism #senseMaking #education
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From 2020: #College-Educated Professionals Are #Capitalism's Useful Idiots https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/i-was-useful-idiot-capitalism/615031/ #usa #americanExceptionalism #academia #collegeBubble #inequality #relativism #senseMaking #education
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Discourses of Climate Delay are the mother of all #classwarfarefromabove strategies to justify, excuse & preserve political privileges & economic inequality, unsustainable in a free and democratic society.
It targets demobilization of voters and the weakening of the #participation in public discourse and democratic process by #relativism.
The simple truth. It's all garbage, only designed to stop you from action against privileges, inequality and abuse of resources.
https://www.leolinne.com/?portfolio=discourses-of-climate-delay
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New Cambridge Element "#Moral #Relativism and Pluralism" (by David B. Wong). Free access available until 20 January 2023: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/moral-relativism-and-pluralism/3DA6C896B00ACDFE5A64E5228E797BC3
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Gaddammit, it happened again.
Someone posted this damn #optical #illusion ("The circle has no yellow in it, yo?")
The first image has been circulating for awhile. It's an example of the Munker-White illusion, or the Bezold effect, and it's well understood.
I made this tryptych image back in 2020, to demonstrate what's going on. I do kind of know what I'm talking about here, since I was a TV/Film #colorist for many years.
The second panel is the first panel blurred. You can clearly see that the "yellow" circle is grey.
But, the third panel demonstrates that when you remove the color cast from the entire image, the circle becomes yellow. (In the first image, your brain perceives it as "yellow-er" than the blue background).
This is what your brain is doing all the time, as you move through different lighting conditions which is how you can still tell someone is wearing a green shirt, in a room with only red lights, so long as there are other colors in the room to compare it to.
When I tried to explain relative color perception to this person, the whole thread devolved into one of the dumbest conversations I've ever had about absolute vs. relative truth, statistics sample size, and how we can "never be really sure of anything," including when we measure temperature with a thermometer.
GAAAHHHHH!
New Rule: Optical illusions, outside of a *strict scientific context* having to do with understanding #cognition and the brain's visual system are a Trojan Fucking Horse for #nonsense
People, please stop using optical illusions, to push #solipsism and #relativism