Do You Think We Can Really Get Better?

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Rordy: Are we moving closer to reality and getting a kind of blurry look? And this is where it gets so confusing to me, because, a, when you say getting better or approximating, i think that you need to believe that you're aproximating something. So the whole like getting better, seems like a very hard thing to determine.

David and Tamler take their first real look at pragmatism via Richard Rorty’s “Solidarity or Objectivity.” Can we discover facts about the world as it “really is,” independent of our own culturally influenced methods of inquiry? If not, does that make us relativists? Is David right about pragamatism being an ass-backward approach to scientific truth, or is he just a pragmatist who’s not ready to admit that to himself? Plus, does "The Little Mermaid" have to be white? What about Clark Kent? And we select the topic finalists for our Patreon listener selected episode.