
Ep 143: Metaphysics
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The Truth Is Manifest
Such beliefs often amount to the pessimistic claim that at least somewhere, somehow, knowledge creation and progress must come to a stop. A perfection of such profound importance, it may need to be defended to the death and spread by the sword. But they are merely a special case. Scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians alike have claimed at times to possess final truth. And what could be more valuable inherently than learning manifest truth? We would not waste our time coercing generation after generation on the mere assumption of truth. Would we?
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