Is There a Convergence?

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i get the appeal of this view too, because leads to a more may aesthetic approach to life. You're trying to come up with things that are beautiful and useful and that can bring people together. And you're not pretending you can't take the standslike the weinstens cake or, you know, the i. D w,. It's jst, precluded from just your whole approach to the world. Ri, it's i. I've had that passage highlighted to cause it was like a if it's nica. And i think that you realists are pussys, right?

David and Tamler take their first real look at pragmatism via Richard Rorty’s “Solidarity or Objectivity.” Can we discover facts about the world as it “really is,” independent of our own culturally influenced methods of inquiry? If not, does that make us relativists? Is David right about pragamatism being an ass-backward approach to scientific truth, or is he just a pragmatist who’s not ready to admit that to himself? Plus, does "The Little Mermaid" have to be white? What about Clark Kent? And we select the topic finalists for our Patreon listener selected episode.