PREMIUM-Episode 61: Nietzsche on Truth and Skepticism
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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We Don't Have Claws, So We Have to Use This
The author says we substitute the idea of truth with a capital t as some sort of privileged access to things in themselves or to the real world. Truth is really about a social convention that allows you to say that somebody can be trusted or not trusted, he writes. "I think what he's doing is he's putting his thumb on what we take truth to be and the value we put on it"
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