Ep 73: David Deutsch on "Truth". A question for David 4.
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Introduction
Philosophers have invented many different theories of truth over the years. Popper was persuaded of this correspondence theory of truth and he writes about it in objective knowledge. He expands upon this notion by introducing a new term, a neologism: verisimilitude. This idea of nearness to truth or closeness to truth is kind of reminiscent of chapter two of the beginning of infinity - closer to reality, not closer to truth, but closer to reality.
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