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Truth and Emptiness with Jake Orthwein

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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Social Consensus Constructivist View

I don't like about this social consensus view is if everybody agreed therefore it's just true I think I think you lose the there's a term that Brian Cantwell Smith uses of like you lose the humility and deference basically when you move to the pure consensus constructivist view. Right yeah I suppose I'm sympathetic to what you're saying so if I understand correctly like there are there's social sort of yeah so you could have a social consensus that is itself wrong even if it's not wrong with respect to some objective condition right so that like it can only really be right or wrong but  the problem is with certain kinds of social truths it can only be right orwrong with respect to

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