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April 2018 Q & A

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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How to Know if Your Stupid Theory Is Wrong

If you make a mistake and you hurt yourself, well, then your stupid theory was wrong. That's what the pain says. And that's a pragmatic. You see, that's another indication of pragmatic theory of truth. The fact that that behavioral routine produced the intended result validates it as a tool for obtaining that result. Now it might be the only form of truth, although I'm not convinced of that completely, but it might be.

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