A beautiful example of why #theleft specifically saught to kill #philosophy before anything else. They needed to kill the very basics of empirical epistemology.
This is also why I say that Ayn Rand’s best contribution to philosophy is NOT her ethics (which is missing some key features), but her #epistemology
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Whenever you’re facing a leftist cognitive frag grenade like “social constructs aren’t real,” it’s useful to dissect the core claim beneath their words. It’s a common tactic of theirs to hide easily refutable absurdities using pseudo-intellectual confusion spells, but these are easy to defend against with some practice.
As a case study: the leftist below claims that race isn’t real because it’s a socially constructed, arbitrary fence around a complex & continuous reality (genes). But this describes every human concept and word — language itself is an attempt to “ring fence” reality (i.e. compress it, discretize it) so that we can make sense of it.
For example: color names are social constructs. Color is a continuous spectrum; we divided it up into neighborhoods called “blue” and “green” so that we could talk about color. I can tell you that the sky is blue or the grass is green, and you’ll know with reasonable accuracy what I mean by that.
But color boundaries are fuzzy — people often vehemently disagree about whether shades of turquoise are blue or green. Following the leftist’s argument, this means that neither blue nor green exist. Colors cannot be named or talked about because it requires us to “ring fence” the color spectrum.
Expanding the argument, this means that sense making itself — which always requires discretizing & compressing a continuous reality — is invalid. Human thought itself is an impossible project. Reality is an incomprehensible soup that can only be experienced and never named. The very words the leftist used to communicate this to me are impossible, nothing but empty pointers.
This is obviously retarded, given that our compressed & discretized world models are truthful enough to allow us to shape & predict the physical world. We have inventions that work; we can move around and interact with our environment effectively. Our brains evolved to compress reality in ways that increase our survival, which could only work if the compression is at least somewhat faithful.
To deny that race exists because it’s socially constructed is to deny that anything exists at all. This is a worthless assertion that can simply be laughed at and dismissed
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Whenever you’re facing a leftist cognitive frag grenade like “social constructs aren’t real,” it’s useful to dissect the core claim benea...
