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320. Massimo Pigliucci — How to Live a Good Life and Create a Just Society

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Is There a Good Number of Immigrants?

There is no such thing as a mythological truth. But there you're still operating at the empirical level in which you're putting a Bayesian probability on it being actually true or not. The problem with people like Ken, and I use the word problem in a broad sense here, is that he's too smart to actually say, oh yeah, I believe in this stuff, you know, empirically. He knows that he can't go there, it's indefensible at that level,. yet he still wants to retain some degree of religion, faith, whatever you want to call it.

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