Are facts trustworthy? |Simon Blackburn, Sophie Grace Chappell and Anandi Hattiangadi
Philosophy For Our Times
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Is There Something Wrong About This?
In the eighties and nineties a certain kind of relativism became all the rage in left wing circles. I always thought, now, there's something wrong about this - it's inflated. The problem is not with people having different beliefs, because we know how to argue about that. But when people think that somehow they've got a right to the different beliefs, that you can retreat into a bubble or a silo,. And that's laziness. It's also inconsiderate and rude. Because if you don't test your beliefs, then eventually you get fossilized. T is a fact. We've had sen iving over three minutes, i bot, so we
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