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95 | Liam Kofi Bright on Knowledge, Truth, and Science
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Pragmatist Theory Is Not a Good Idea, Right?
Pipplopi: We want truth to be univalent in some kind of sense. And so that puts a lot of people off the pragmatist theory. After the war, Bertrand Russell sort of alleged it was complicit with fascism - I heard that one. So if you just leave it at that or something, not much more sophisticated than that, then people worried that, well, it's not really informative. You haven't told me anything about truth at all. On the flip side, and this is where you feel sorry for the cross-front series, they get that complaint.
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