Determinism: All human thoughts and actions are the product of blind, brute, physical, deterministic forces unconnected to truth, reason, or logic. Including the thought that all human thoughts and actions are the product of blind, brute, physical, deterministic forces unconnected to truth, reason, or logic. Hence, self-refuting. If it’s true, there is no reason for believing it.
Identity politics: If all beliefs are the product of race, class and gender, and one’s position within intersectional power dynamics of oppression, then so is the belief that all beliefs are the product of race, class and gender, and one’s position within intersectional power dynamics of oppression. And not truth.
Evolutionary psychology: If everything we do and say is the product of our genes and environment, then so is the notion that everything we do and say is the product of our genes and environment. And not truth.
Post-Modernism: If all the world is a giant “text” subject to an indefinite number of interpretations with no one interpretation being superior to the others, then so is the thought that all the world is a giant “text” subject to an indefinite number of interpretations with no one interpretation being superior to the others. That interpretation is no better than the assertion that some interpretations are stupid and inferior to others.
Foucault-ism: There is no truth. Just power. Whoever has power determines what is true. Then that assertion that there is no truth, just power, and whoever has power determines what is true, is itself the product of power and has no connection to the truth.
Atomic nihilism: If all your hopes, dreams, beliefs, and feelings are simply the result of atoms and molecules banging around inside you following no particular rhyme or reason, then so is the belief that all your hopes, dreams, beliefs, and feelings are simply the result of atoms and molecules banging around inside you following no particular rhyme or reason.