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Feb 24, 2019 11 tweets 2 min read
"Fitra of the Gaps" and moral epistemology

A thread on appealing to the fitra as a basis for moral knowledge: It is not uncommon for Muslims who advocate for some form of Theological Voluntarism to appeal to the fitra as a means of access to the truth of certain moral judgements (eg. "We know x is right/wrong on the basis of our fitra").  1/
Feb 18, 2019 44 tweets 5 min read
Postmodernism is an oft-critiqued but largely misunderstood intellectual "movement", hence the following is an attempt to clarify some misconceptions with regards to it.

Disclaimer: This will be quite a lengthy thread.  1/ 1). "Postmodernists deny objective truth"

This isn't strictly speaking true depending on what is means by "objective". For starters, it's important to understand in what context they're talking about "truth".  2/