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Life Experiments and Philosophical Thinking (with Arden Koehler)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Importance of Models in Life

Spencer: We need lots of little models of the way things work. The idea is that they capture some important elements of truth and they're flexible and easy to apply. Spencer: I think another thing, another sort of like thinking tool that I've adopted has been like making explicit hypotheses and then seeing if they turn out to be true or false. It's in the in between philosophy and an empirical science.

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