I’ve developed some great friendships on Twitter.
Wait! What does that say about me if I develop most of my friendships when limited to 140 characters or less?! 🙂
Either way, I’ve developed some great friendships on Twitter, and one of the folks I appreciate most is Jeffrey Guterman, whose Twitter profile describes him as a “mental health counselor and author.” He and I view the world from different angles, but I’ve had some of my most rewarding tweet dialogues with him. Here is an example of how he takes the time to explain difficult concepts (we were discussing contradictions and truth):
@AlanCult One of my favorite contradictions is in domain of epistemology. If you're hanging online a bit I'll share, or I can do it later.
— Dr. Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) August 18, 2015
@AlanCult Proponents of anti-realist epistemologies, in vogue especially in the 1970s and 1980s, #postmodernism, have held the …
— Dr. Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) August 18, 2015
@AlanCult epistemological formulation that one cannot know with absolute certainty if knowledge is an objective (i.e., independent) of…
— Dr. Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) August 18, 2015
@AlanCult the observer) view of reality. Now, this seems fair enough on the surface. But upon closer scrutiny, this statement becomes a …
— Dr. Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) August 18, 2015
@AlanCult contradiction if and when we accept as true the claim that one cannot know with absolute certainty if knowledge is objective.
— Dr. Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) August 18, 2015
And he followed it up with this good advice… 🙂
@AlanCult Get it? Don;t answer if you don't Just read it over. If we calim we cannot know for sure,a dn this is true, then we contradict …
— Dr. Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) August 18, 2015
@AlanCult ourselves because we just made a TRUTH CLAIM about the limits of knowing.
— Dr. Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) August 18, 2015