Are You a Realist?

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Is our behaviour any different? Do you believe the certain scientific things more strongly than i do because you're a realist about it and i'm not? I wonder if there would be that much of a differencewella. If what you believe, by saying that something is true, is justified by, sayng the community standards, then i think you have a kind of a lower bar in some cases to be confident in your view. Whereas if you ere realist, but you are sort of very lucidly understand that tapping into reality is something we're wer far away from. You might hold any theory as as temporary yes,. And i think you could be an epistemically

David and Tamler take their first real look at pragmatism via Richard Rorty’s “Solidarity or Objectivity.” Can we discover facts about the world as it “really is,” independent of our own culturally influenced methods of inquiry? If not, does that make us relativists? Is David right about pragamatism being an ass-backward approach to scientific truth, or is he just a pragmatist who’s not ready to admit that to himself? Plus, does "The Little Mermaid" have to be white? What about Clark Kent? And we select the topic finalists for our Patreon listener selected episode.