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#62 — What is True?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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We Can Build Hydrogen Bombs, but We Can't Build a Nuclear Bomb

The idea is that we can never stand outside of human conversation and talk about reality as it is, or truth as it is. We never come into contact with naked truth. All we have is our conversation and our tools of augmenting our conversation,. And all we really have that the ncy of truth is whatever successfully passes muster in a conversation.

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