Alan: The irreducible premises of left-wing and right-wing politics can be debated.
But facts cannot.
The essential horror of the world's epistemological crisis is that "truth terrorists" use the irreducibility of values to "prove" that facts themselves are similarly "up for grabs."
And since facts themselves cannot be determined humans are at liberty to concoct "the alternative facts" that suit their ideological biases.
Within reasonable limits, "objective" truth can be determined.
Since subjectivity knows no limit, truth is indeterminate.
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