Why is Truth Good? (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with William Eliot)
Minds Almost Meeting
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Do You Accept the Concept of Many Possible Worlds in One Real World?
The idea of many possible worlds in one actual world is a circuit argument, says Agnes. "I'm not fully convinced that that isn't also the definition of truth," she adds. But there's space here for the thought that you could learn more information about which world you live in and that could have no impact on your decisions, right? So it could just be facts like, you know, counterfactual historians or something, right?
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