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Episode 245: Pragmatically Speaking

Very Bad Wizards

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I Don't Have an Epistemology, but I Dont Have a Method of Inquiry

The pragmatist says knowledge is like truth, simply a compliment paid to the beliefs which we think so well justified that for the moment, further justification is not needed. He seems to arrive at some view that what when a belief is justified is when you have a sort of consensus among your community. But he backs away from that a little bit because he doesn't want to be self defeating. So there is a lot of discussion of of justification here, which a, iit's still, i don't no if you can help shed light on this.

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