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I was willing to at least consider anything Sanger had to offer, given his CV. But generally I fast fail [...] any media critic leading with "liberal bias". Es
by sellyme 6y ago
I was willing to at least consider anything Sanger had to offer, given his CV. But generally I fast fail [...] any media critic leading with "liberal bias".
Especially when one of the main criticisms is "It's biased to say a false statement is false".
Sanger's fundamental misunderstanding is that a neutral point of view doesn't mean that the thing you're writing about is also going to be neutral.
- specialist 6y agoKeen point. Thanks. It just now occurs to me that you're probably referring to the epistemological crisis. I don't actually know what that means, but please humor me. Sanger teaches philosophy. To him, maybe there is no truth? Or that all truths are equal? Or something like that. More than a handful of the geeks I've worked with were afflicted by the recursive discursive thing. Most bad was the philosopher software architect. Actually repeatedly debated metametadata, the data about metadata. I wanted to kill myself. Tying this back to current events: It might be useful to have some canary questions, to determine the epistemological bent of the other participants. It's pointless to argue about facts if the other party doesn't believe in facts.