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The Popperian Podcast #12 – Jonathan Rauch – ‘The Constitution of Knowledge’

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The Social Negotiation Process

In the world of politics, and i think, through persuasion. In what i call the reality base community, that's the community of people who follow the constitution of knowledge. What they're engaged in is a big social negotiation, i which people are trying to persuade each other. And you get knowledge out of it because you can organize so many minds so quickly to tackle a problem. That's what put the covid shot in my arm with really incredible speed. The only way to make knowledge is to persuade. You can't coerce. I can't just say, well, you know, jed, you might be right, but since you're wrong, i'm going to kill

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