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Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)

Very Bad Wizards

All Language Games Are in Principle Inter-Translatable, Right?

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Samuel Rortia: Pragmatism has no problem at all with realism. We never encounter reality outside our language game, he says. The reason why you couldn't have aliens that stand in relation to us is because the chicken pragmatists then look ridiculous, right? You just have to imagine just nested hierarchies of competence and it's not going to take too far if I try to respond to this on a personal level," Samuels writes.

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