
#62 — What is True?
Making Sense with Sam Harris
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I Would Oppose Realism With Pragmatism
I wouldn't call it newtonian. Let me just change your words a little bit. But i would oppose realism, scientific realism, and even moral realism. I think they are right and wrong answers to moral questions. Thepragma has to locate truth always within the context of existing conversations,. And in this darwinian conception of truth, you are saying that there is just what works for us, biologically, pragmatically, as apes on earth now.
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