What About a Metaphors We Live By?

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We have stoicism, long termism, leguins the dispossessed. What about a metaphors we live by? You up for that? Or it toa long, it's a, its a book. I don't remember how long it is. But really, what i was looking for was an acknowledgment that only one of my picks has made it on the list. We haven't made the list yet. So how do you know what's on the list and what's not on the list? Well, right now we have stoicism,. Longtermism, legUins the dispossession. These are just some that we, you know, that we wouldn't mind having

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.