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Knowledge As Conjectural Correction
- David Deutsch frames knowledge as conjectural corrections rather than building bricks on sensation or authority.
- Thinking wanders a landscape of imperfect ideas and improves by proposing and adopting better conjectures.
Defending Moral Realism
- Sam Harris wrote The Moral Landscape to defend civilization against moral relativism and religious dogmatism.
- He argues moral truths exist and can be treated like other truth claims amenable to reason and evidence.
Two Kinds Of Objectivity
- Deutsch distinguishes two senses of objectivity: truths reducible to physics and abstract truths independent of physical facts.
- He claims moral truths align with the latter — independent yet objectively real.