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A tale of truth | Simon Blackburn

Philosophy For Our Times

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Simon Blackburn is the author of Think and Truth, a guide for the Black. He says there's nothing to say about truth because you can't verify it by cut beans or falsify it with facts. You've got to assess truths and assess beliefs in the light of other things that you believe. So basically it's a matter of using the friction provided by other beliefs in order to assess and probably file render improbable any particular belief.

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