# The Big Tent Paradox

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**Created:** [June 15, 2026, 6:46am UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/the-big-tent-paradox/764 "2026-06-15T06:46:53Z")
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### Author: ![GeoffDann](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/user_avatar/forum.secondrenaissance.net/geoffdann/32/860_2.png) [@GeoffDann](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/GeoffDann)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2026, 7:12pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/the-big-tent-paradox/764/79 "2026-06-18T19:12:09Z")

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> [@RobertBunge](#):
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> Something being essential to your preferred theory is not the same as saying it is essential for everyone else to care about. Moreover, even if your theory is spectacular in all its particulars, that still does not compel anyone to care about it. Logic is one thing. Persuasion is an entirely different matter.

You are absolutely right. If people do not care about the truth, I cannot convince them otherwise by providing arguments about why there is such a thing as truth. They have to decide for themselves that the truth matters as an end in itself.

For the last 39 years. my first allegiance has been to the truth, and that will remain the case until the day I die.

2PC is not “my preferred theory”. That is pure old-paradigm-thinking. The whole point in 2PC is that it might actually be true, not that anybody _prefers_ it.

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