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@ Kevin's Bacon
2025-02-19 02:12:46
I do nothing of the sort. I'm a believer in objective truth. I just don't go about expecting everyone to conceive of it exactly the way that I do before even entertaining their conversations to understand them. No one has the exact same understanding as you. A good epistemology and good discussion skills must account for this. It often seems to me that Objectivists fall pretty short of this one thing, though honestly, let's be real, basically everyone does.
My thing is that I try to understand a concept by trying out different frameworks of thought, perhaps one my interlocutor is using, perhaps one they haven't even thought of yet, so that I understand the actual meaning of the concept, before I reject it or make assertions about it that are likely to be irrelevant or unproductive.