Feb 15, 2023
I have a pragmatic, neo-Kantian take on epistemology and objectivity. So scientific models and even ordinary concepts simplify, idealize, and therefore humanize the subject matter. The external, objective facts have their say, to be sure, but in understanding those facts, we use filters and simplifications to make sense of them, which always falsifies the facts, to some extent. The pure truth would be quite beyond our cognitive capabilities since it would have to encompass the incalculable total cause of an event. I've written numerous articles on this question of objective (noumenal, inhuman) truth.
