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Ep 182: Livestream Science News and AMA

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The Vision of Conjectural Knowledge

Many people who don't get David Deutsch. It's about that conjectural knowledge thing because that runs deep. That runs the idea that you can have a solution to a problem that's final and not improved stuff. When you do that, even if you're an anti-humanist, you can become dogmatic about that. Of course they can. But this vision of conjectural knowledge gives you an increased amount of compassion and understanding for people who stand and start contrast to you on many issues. You are wrong fundamentally about things because there's no royal road to truth and no method of being correct. So we should all expect in certain places to be completely wrong with error abounds.

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