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Postmodernism and truth

2003-03-11 18:11:05.393637+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Daniel Dennett takes down postmodernism:

Getting it right, not making mistakes, has been of paramount importance to every living thing on this planet for more than three billion years, and so these organisms have evolved thousands of different ways of finding out about the world they live in, discriminating friends from foes, meals from mates, and ignoring the rest for the most part. It matters to them that they not be misinformed about these matters--indeed nothing matters more--but they don't, as a rule, appreciate this.

This is in a site called Butterflies and Wheels that looks like it's worth regular trips back.

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