Totally agree but do you guys ever have a moment where you can't negotiate the two sides? I try to explain my beliefs to a friend, get no where, and think - if someone told me my truths were false, would I be able to listen?
I'll go with Kant here. We can know truth a priori, as in 2 + 2 = 4, and always equals 4. These are things we can know through rationality alone and the use reason. The other way is through empirical experience and investigation.
I think our current issue is that postmodernist, Frankfurt School thought has invaded so many folks' minds that they are no longer able to say 2 + 2 = 4; men are women, women are men...it's a completely constructivist way of looking through the glass darkly. When basic reality's language is twisted, bent, or erased the ability reason from first principles becomes impossible.
Without the building blocks of grammar and logic, and eventually rhetoric, the possibility to make sense of empirical evidence becomes impossible. These people just becomes slaves to whatever information the approved masters tell them.
This is why I cannot stand the **"speak YOUR truth ** movement. Making TRUTH subjective opens the door to the destabilization and ultimate destruction of objective Truth. Words have meaning. Unfortunately, many people aren't recognizing that this attack on our culture is, at its base, philosophical... It is no mistake that we are not taught logic and philosophy in grade school.
Isn't it interesting that those who scream that they are on the side of science can't find it in themselves to admit basic objective truths?
Totally agree but do you guys ever have a moment where you can't negotiate the two sides? I try to explain my beliefs to a friend, get no where, and think - if someone told me my truths were false, would I be able to listen?
I'll go with Kant here. We can know truth a priori, as in 2 + 2 = 4, and always equals 4. These are things we can know through rationality alone and the use reason. The other way is through empirical experience and investigation.
I think our current issue is that postmodernist, Frankfurt School thought has invaded so many folks' minds that they are no longer able to say 2 + 2 = 4; men are women, women are men...it's a completely constructivist way of looking through the glass darkly. When basic reality's language is twisted, bent, or erased the ability reason from first principles becomes impossible.
Without the building blocks of grammar and logic, and eventually rhetoric, the possibility to make sense of empirical evidence becomes impossible. These people just becomes slaves to whatever information the approved masters tell them.
This is why I cannot stand the **"speak YOUR truth ** movement. Making TRUTH subjective opens the door to the destabilization and ultimate destruction of objective Truth. Words have meaning. Unfortunately, many people aren't recognizing that this attack on our culture is, at its base, philosophical... It is no mistake that we are not taught logic and philosophy in grade school.
Isn't it interesting that those who scream that they are on the side of science can't find it in themselves to admit basic objective truths?