
Beyond truth | Hilary Lawson
Philosophy For Our Times
00:00
Is There a World Without Patents?
In just a hundred stars, you can make more patents than there are atoms in the known universe. And when you look up, you just choose one of those pattens - and it is an inconceivably large number of pattens. So we don't remotely think that of those are true, do we? How? Mean, they're just different ways of looking at tha stuff out there. That doesn't mean to say they're not useful. When you've spotted a ri i can say, oh, just look at the star that's to the top right hand side of a run. I can use it to point to other ones. But that's one out of
Transcript
Play full episode