"Nuance: Virtue or Vice?" - OaD Ep. 171
Owls at Dawn
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The Nuance of the Fine Grain Is Anti Theoretical, Right?
Sally Kohn: I'm still thinking about the relationship between truth, truth theory and interesting theory. She says it's unclear to me what Healy actually thinks here because he quotes some sociologist who says like, said something about how we care more about theories being interesting than true. But if your theory is getting towards ultimate grounds of things, then it's going to be interesting, she says.Kohn: It doesn't seem to be like interestingness is a virtue. What matters is that theories are true or at least give us some window into truth.
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