After giving us your views on politics you’ve moved swiftly on to epistemology. You’re spoiling us, Ambassador!
I was being sincere about appeals to authority. Re: Epistemology it's not something I know lots about. One quote that springs to mind is by Guenon on the nature of truth.
'Truth is not a product of the human mind'
To the best of my knowledge I'd agree with that, which IMO, is opposing post-modernity or the current 'hyper-modernity' that we're witnessing. I'm currently almost half way through the 1st volume of 'The Matter with Things' by Iain McGilchrist - I haven't got to the chapter on truth yet, but will feedback when I do. What I can say is that his 'hemispheric thesis' seems very close to Roger Scruton's theory of Cognitive Dualism which he describes in 'The Soul of the World'. In which one part of our minds is representational and stuck in the 'Realm of Abstract Quantities' while the other holds a broader more complete often ineffable understanding of things, often neglected in the modern world leading to a loss of the sense of the sacred and the meaning crisis. This is given even more clarity in Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil' although I came to the conclusion he was a very bitter and sexually frustrated man with a constant headache, projection maybe, there's a few of us out there.
Otherwise, Plato's dialogues on Truth and Knowledge were good, but I find Socrates quite annoying. Put to death for being a Troll before Trolls were invented. In the end in life and climbing I like to go by Alfred North Whiteheads conclusion in 'The function of Reason'.
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