Is There a Realist Intuition?

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i want to maintain some degree of realism or objectivity in my views, i get that. But it seems as if you can be a kid in whatever, like third grade in tyland in 19 54, and do an experiment, and it'll come out the same way as your daughter doing that same experiment in high school in 20 19. And so they end up sound like just essentially saying the realist story, but in like, these pragmatic terms. Doesn't make sense a set aside from the soci historical momentand you can try to put yourself in a vele of ignorance and now that with but that's right, it's not going to work.

David and Tamler take their first real look at pragmatism via Richard Rorty’s “Solidarity or Objectivity.” Can we discover facts about the world as it “really is,” independent of our own culturally influenced methods of inquiry? If not, does that make us relativists? Is David right about pragamatism being an ass-backward approach to scientific truth, or is he just a pragmatist who’s not ready to admit that to himself? Plus, does "The Little Mermaid" have to be white? What about Clark Kent? And we select the topic finalists for our Patreon listener selected episode.