Latest hits: if gender is performative that means it’s fake and patriarchy doesn’t exist! I don’t know who Judith Butler is!

    • Soleos@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Well yes you are absolutely correct from a materialist standpoint. If you limit reality to material things, then truths are limited to material knowledge. Emergent properties such as subjective experience, society/culture, and ultimately meaning and meaningfulness are excluded from what is considered reality and truth, except for their material correlates. And this is why philosophers moved on from materialism because, while highly fruitful, it was ultimately insufficient in capturing all forms of knowledge.

      I prefer a pragmatic blend of constructivist realism.

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        4 days ago

        Don’t take the bait then 😘

        Edit I mean any time anyone makes a comment which makes you tired :3