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Why is Truth Good? (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with William Eliot)

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

Introduction

We are joined again by Will. And he's going to tell us what we're going to talk about. Yes, we don't know. I gave you a little hint a couple of days ago. But this is something that there's a lot of discourse and there has been for many millennia on this topic. So the thing about truth is I've just worried that a lot of defenses for why truth is good rely upon the definition of truth in the truth represents reality. It seems like maybe like a tautology, some kind of argument that's looping back on itself.

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