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Truth and Emptiness with Jake Orthwein

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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Getting Away With Having This Course in Physics

The aim in physics is to discover the substances and laws that obtain over the longest possible timescales. You can get away with having this more objective conception of truth where it's about total independence from any socially contingent reality or total independence from our projects and practices, he says. "I'm not I'm not prejudging what the phenomenon is like but I'm saying that's a context in which that way of epistemologically relating is appropriate" He adds: 'There are many universes with many different laws or whatever'

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