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Truth and Emptiness with Jake Orthwein

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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Is There a Truth in the West?

AC Graham argues quite persuasively that Chinese doesn't have an abstract notion of truth during the warring states period. And so I'm not just like kind of saying this to be provocative. Like I actually think there might be a case for saying that truth, what we seem to want from truth in the West is actually just too broad. You know what I mean? Yes. Well, let me say something in response. I don't know that you can say that like fitting into a social world is in some sense, like derivative of some higher overarching single unitary aim.like survival, for example.

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