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What Is Truth: Wrestling with Absolutism, Relativism, and Alternative Facts (Re-Release from S01E21)

A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar

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The Pragmatic View of Truth

The pragmatic view says that truth is the end of inquiry. It's something ideal out there somewhere that we're headed towards, which means we never actually possess it right now. There are a couple other kind of popular views, but they're a little more technical. The last notion of truth I wanted to mention is the deflation theory,. But a lot of people are just suspicious about whether anything is true.

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