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25. Jonathan Rauch - The Constitution of Knowledge

Ideas Having Sex

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What Is Fallibleism?

"This is such a potted history of philosophy of knowledge that you may laugh at me and I wouldn't blame you, but it's a podcast. So here goes. Make it potted." "For most of human history, the way we got knowledge was from our tribes and the revelations of people in our group," he says. "We didn't really learn very much as a species for our first 200,000 years". 'It sets up an open ended conversation because no one's in a position to say,. I'm right, you're wrong, that's the end of it'

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