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RE: A Primer on Ideology

in #ideology6 years ago

Your criteria seem rather cogent to me, and it occurs to me that asking oneself whether any of those criteria describe ones own mental orientation would be an important first step in undoing an ideology within oneself. For me, opinions and beliefs are hypotheses. At any given point we either have experiential knowledge that something is a fact, or we do not; we either know the fundamental causes and conditions that create a phenomena and know its effects, or we do not. If we know that we don't know, and know what we don't know, then we can find out. But finding out is precluded by believing we know something when in fact we do not. And despite some post-modernist ideology about their being no truth - and leaving aside the inherent contradiction in such a belief - there are facts. I do not get to choose whether or not gravity acts on me, for instance, if i step off a cliff with no support.

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