Theorizing truth must account for conflicts that resist closure.
Evidence
This puts Griffin firmly on the side of my distinguished colleague Sanford Levinson in his debate with Judge Harry Edwards.2’ To my chagrin, I find myself disagreeing with Griffin and Levinson, though I am honored by the company of Judge Edwards. I do not mean that legal scholarship ought to transform itself into the memoranda of an academy of clerks. But I do think that the pursuit of truth requires the theorist to account for the remarkable phenomenon of the resolution of conflict when the means of determining truth conditions-the modalities-continue to conflict and resist coming to closure. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 571
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the Levinson-Edwards legal scholarship debate about the audience and utility of academic work. — connects to: Ideology is defined by an unresolved tension between historical relativity and universal truth.; Partial perspectives each capture truth and yet miss the whole — , A Year of World Stories, 2242; Subordinated regimes of truth sustain plausibility for oppressed subjects (+9 more)
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- Subordinated regimes of truth sustain plausibility for oppressed subjects (similarity 0.86)
- Ideology is defined by an unresolved tension between historical relativity and universal truth. (similarity 0.83)
Broader Connections
- True thinking requires an internal dialogue among conflicting viewpoints.
#exemplifies(0.70) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 727 - Theory is best engaged as struggle rather than fluent agreement
#corroborates(0.60) - Historical conjunctures are overdetermined accumulations of heterogeneous contradictions
#exemplifies(0.60) - The discursive turn requires reintroducing the subject as non-unitary and internally contradictory
#exemplifies(0.60) - Cultural Studies must balance holding a position with open-ended ongoing theorizing.
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