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Ep. 5: The Greatest Intellectual of the 20th Century

Young Heretics

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What Is the Difference Between Fact and Value?

The fact value distinction is a philosophical sort of term of art. We separate out facts, which we imagine to be the kind of stable truths about the world. And then values, which we think of as these kind of slightly squier and more subjective judgements. David hume famously, in the late 17 hundreds, a sort of writing about it.

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