Ep 73: David Deutsch on "Truth". A question for David 4.
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Using Imprecise Terminology
In any area of life, there will be reasons to use sharp language at times. Medical doctors and pilots might want to be extremely precise in exactly what they mean when they are communicating with people in their area of work. There is no such thing as a perfectly precise language. And on the other hand, I don't think very similitude is useful at all. One has to be very careful to use the concept of truth only as a property of abstractions. Never as something you can actually measure or know have direct access to.
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