Episode 245: Pragmatically Speaking
Very Bad Wizards
Is It a Parochialism?
Herodotus describes the idea of truth as something to be pursued for its own sake, not because it will be good for oneself or for one's real or imaginary community. He says we're seeing through a very specific cultural lens and mistaking our own cultural habits for axioms or self evident truths. And so i think it's deeper than just something that started with the greeks.
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