{"id":13372,"date":"2023-01-05T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=13372"},"modified":"2023-01-11T17:07:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T21:07:08","slug":"792-episteme-illogical-the-destruction-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/13372","title":{"rendered":"792 – Epist\u0113m\u0113 illogical\u2014the destruction of language"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Derived from the Greek \u2018epist\u0113m\u0113\u2019 (knowledge) and \u2018logos\u2019 (discourse), epistemology is defined as \u201cthe science that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of knowledge.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

Ultimately, all true science involves a search for knowledge and truth. Every science therefore rests upon its own epistemology<\/strong> to validate the truth or falsehood of its knowledge obtained against the test of reality.<\/p>\n

Unlike the physical world, the political world is a world of abstractions<\/strong> (left and right, conservative and liberal, capitalism and communism, tyranny and freedom, etc). Politics is about ideas, concepts, and theories in conflict. But as with the physical sciences, if those concepts are flawed, tragic consequences may result.<\/p>\n

For those on the Right, one of the most destructive concepts to the cause of freedom and individualism is the anti-concept of \u201cpolarization,\u201d along with a dismissal of the terms \u201cleft\u201d and \u201cright\u201d as being no longer distinguishable.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Those accused of \u201cpolarizing\u201d an issue or debate, or of being \u201cextreme right wing,\u201d have found themselves on the defensive, thanks to a mistaken belief that these attributes are something negative. This is evidence that those on the Left have been incredibly successful at concept destruction.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen (polarization) is used as a pejorative term,\u201d warned Ayn Rand in 1971, \u201cthis means that men should not differ in their views – that such differences are evil, that men must not disagree. In the absence of intellectual polarization we are witnessing the growth of the ugliest kind of divisiveness (driven) by a common hatred<\/strong> of some other group \u2013 not by choice \u2013 but by terror.\u201d<\/p>\n

In politics, there are only two directions in which to move: Leftward <\/strong>towards tyranny<\/strong>, or to the Right<\/strong> where only Freedom<\/strong> and Capitalism reside. By retreating from accusations of \u201cpolarization,\u201d those on the Right are missing a golden opportunity to define and describe the values that distinguish Left from Right. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat this country needs above all is the clarifying \u2026 guidance of fundamental principles: intellectual polarization,\u201d advised Rand.<\/strong> \u201cThis would bring to our cultural atmosphere an all-but-forgotten quality: honesty, with its corollary, clarity. It would enable men to know their own stand and that of their adversaries. No open disagreement can be as destructive as the secret nameless virulent hostility now splintering this country.\u201d
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\nContrary to popular opinion, political polarity is a healthy and positive attribute of a free and open society.<\/strong> Rather than being a cause of divisiveness and disunity, under the polarity of open debate \u201cdivided we stand and united we fall\u201d may prove to be the true formula for a unity that\u2019s Just Right.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJust follow the science\u201d has been the incessant refrain of those pushing everything from climate change to dangerous injections. Because their claims with regard to these sinister objectives are in conflict with reality and reason, it should not be surprising that they have abandoned the most fundamental of all the sciences: epistemology. Derived from the [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,596,28,6,4,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-ideas","category-latest","category-politics","category-reason","category-socialism","issues-concepts","issues-epistemology-2","issues-language","category-12-id","category-596-id","category-28-id","category-6-id","category-4-id","category-120-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13376,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13372\/revisions\/13376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}