Do You Think That Mermaids Can Be Black?

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Tamler: There is a little mermaid movie, life, action cast with a black woman playing ariel er, ariel, arielari ever mary ariel. And it's just funny, because it's not like these are real people who existed in history. Tth fictional character that everybody in visions is white, or maybe that was originally described as white. In the second segment, we are going to talk about pragmatism. An essay by richard rordy called objectivity or solidarity. Is that right? Tis solid solidary? Our objectivitys i i don't think reev and rordy would say that it matters.

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.