{"id":7904,"date":"2024-07-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=7904"},"modified":"2024-06-24T19:36:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T19:36:44","slug":"looking-at-steve-fullers-book-2020-a-players-guide-to-the-post-truth-condition-part-18-of-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=7904","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Steve Fuller&#8217;s Book (2020) &#8220;A Player&#8217;s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition&#8221; (Part 18 of 26)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0172 One more point about chapter ten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author discloses an amazing coincidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1996, Fuller publishes an article in the same issue of the journal,&nbsp;<em>Social Text,<\/em>&nbsp;as Alan Sokal&#8217;s infamous fraud, marking the start of the so-called<em>&nbsp;Sokal Hoax<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The admission is delightful, occurring as it does in a discussion that intimates that&nbsp;<em>the relativist one&#8217;s interscope founding potential&nbsp;<\/em>is the will<sub>1a<\/sub>, not the truth<sub>1a<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0173 Here is a picture of the interscope for the relativist one in&nbsp;<em>the Fourth Battle Involving Enlightenment Gods: Empirio-Normative Domination within the Post-Truth Condition&nbsp;<\/em>(1989 to present).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide43.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide43.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide43.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide43-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, reason<sub>3a,1a<\/sub>&nbsp;is the normal context of the intellect<sub>3a<\/sub>&nbsp;operating on the potential of the will<sub>1a<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;In&nbsp;<em>our current Lebenswelt,<\/em>we (humans) reason<sub>3a,1a<\/sub>&nbsp;and come up with diverse facts and claims<sub>2a<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;These opinions are selectively observed and measured in order to produce the psychometric models<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;that will be validated by the post-modern university<sub>3b<\/sub>&nbsp;through certification<sub>2b<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Certification<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;is put into perspective by opportunities<sub>1c<\/sub>&nbsp;to success<sub>2c<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;But, success<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;for the scientismist one<sub>3c<\/sub>&nbsp;is not the same as&nbsp;<em>what the person on the scrappy player level<sub>3a,1a<\/sub>&nbsp;thinks it<sub>2a<\/sub>&nbsp;is<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0174 The title of chapter eleven is &#8220;Why Ignorance &#8211; Not Knowledge &#8211; Is The Key To Justice in the Post-Truth Condition&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fuller associates the ignorance position with John Rawls (1921-2002 AD).&nbsp;&nbsp;Rawls is regarded as&nbsp;<em>the greatest philosopher of the social democratic welfare state<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fuller associates the knowledge position with Robert Nozick (1938-2002).&nbsp;&nbsp;Nozick is regarded as&nbsp;<em>the most philosophically sophisticated defender of modern libertarianism<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then plays one off of the other, arriving at the conclusion in the chapter&#8217;s title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0175 For this examiner, Fuller inadvertently re-capitulates an empirio-normative judgment in the following fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide44.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide44.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide44.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide44-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0176 Yes, Fuller takes the opportunity<sub>1c<\/sub>&nbsp;to express his expertise<sub>3b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of psychometric models, justice is value<sub>2<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Rawls associates with&nbsp;<em>the socialist nested form<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Nozick associates with&nbsp;<em>the capitalist nested form<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;For Rawls, in the normal context of order<sub>3<\/sub>, fairness<sub>1<\/sub>&nbsp;provides the best righteousness for justice<sub>2<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;For Nozick, in the normal context of&nbsp;<em>what the market can deliver<sub>3<\/sub>,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>imposing a price&#8230; 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