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> Its really impossible to go back in history, at all. That sounds quite defeatist. I expect that linguistic, archaeological, logistical, genetic, and probabl
by Jedd 3y ago
> Its really impossible to go back in history, at all.
That sounds quite defeatist.
I expect that linguistic, archaeological, logistical, genetic, and probably a few other vectors, can lead us to at least a sequence (causation) view of history we can have some confidence in, and then perhaps we can debate the precise dates.
> Its pretty much impossible to agree about what is going on in the present.
That sounds like a mantra posited by people trying to claim truth is subjective, and/or that a particular narrative (unsupported by evidence) is 'going on'.
I prefer to believe that an objective assessment of reality (as it stands) is not beyond our capabilities.
- verisimi 3y ago> That sounds quite defeatist. Far from it. In our own countries, the freedom fighting good guys always win. It was the baddies that lost. > That sounds like a mantra posited by people trying to claim truth is subjective, and/or that a particular narrative (unsupported by evidence) is 'going on'. I think truth is objective. But no one individual, or group of people, has truth - they just have an interpretation. I actually think this is fairly obvious too. Feel free to give an example of an objective assessment of reality.