A tale of truth | Simon Blackburn
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Pleasure Paradox
Frager says that most philosophers concentrate on adding words to a situation and then the property might be one that excites philosophical worries. Frager: If you ask me what the weather's like today I say it's cold I could have said it's true that it's cold or the fact is it's cold doesn't make any difference so in other words it's a device of signaling agreement with a remark that somebody's made. We'll discuss whether science is based upon fact or belief in fantasy faith and physics, why we're still seeing soaring rates of mental illness as well as perception bias at our next series of ii live events.
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