
137 - How Do You Know?
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Is There an Exception, or a Logical Affirmation?
intellectual dishonesty is having truth, but not believing or wanting to see the justification. Any kind of philosophic assertion, just like a mathematical assertion, if you can find an exception, well it's no longer ironclad. There are exceptions. And so another philosopher, russell, gives the example of a broken clock on the wall and somebody says, hey, what time you got? The person with ten coins in his pocket did get the job. It's just that he got to the truth by accident. He had incomplete knowledge, or he had overlapping age where more than one thing could have been true,. however you want to categorize it.
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