All Bachelor's Are Unmarried Men

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I tend to think that it's one of those things where it relies on a crucial point in this argument is that there are these sort of somewhat mysterious notions. We just can't make sense of quying the person who was influential in which his attack was making it in the 50s. So Klein is trying to give a suspect room rather than just a two options. That thinks to be more or less central to our belief structure. But are you advocating this or mentioning that there are people who advocate it? Because it does not sound very convincing to me.

Everybody talks about the truth, but nobody does anything about it. And to be honest, how we talk about truth — what it is, and how to get there — can be a little sloppy at times. Philosophy to the rescue! I had a very ambitious conversation with Liam Kofi Bright, starting with what we mean by “truth” (correspondence, coherence, pragmatist, and deflationary approaches), and then getting into the nitty-gritty of how we actually discover it. There’s a lot to think about once we take a hard look at how science gets done, how discoveries are communicated, and what different kinds of participants can bring to the table.

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Liam Kofi Bright received his Ph.D. in Logic, Computation and Methodology from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently on the faculty of the London School of Economics in the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and the Scientific Method. He has worked on questions concerning peer review and fraud in scientific communities, intersectionality, logical empiricism, and Africana philosophy. He is well-known on Twitter as the Last Positivist.

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