> > What is it to do theoretical work in a so-called post-truth world without > falling in the equally undesirable opposites of cynical functionalism > (truth is merely what works, comforted in what they already know, and > preserving the status quo) or a new positivism (paternalistic explainerism, > where truth is a matter of numbers, and those in power claim a false > objectivity). >
What's so undesirable about new positivism?!?!? http://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/570
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