Ep. 227: What Is Social Construction? (Hacking, Berger) (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Pragmatist Arguments Against Quantum Theory
In the Quine essay that we read, he actually says that material objects are actually theoretical entities. We have all these different perceptions and things, and we kind of say what best explains the experiences structured in this way? I'm not even making a guess in the way that Kant would think about what's in the thing in itself or something like that. It's just we're positing these things as theoretical entities. So in that sense, it is always the case.
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