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Is the World Blurry? | The Modernist Fallacy

Is the World Blurry? | The Modernist Fallacy

FromPatterson in Pursuit


Is the World Blurry? | The Modernist Fallacy

FromPatterson in Pursuit

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Length:
6 minutes
Released:
May 26, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

What's more likely: a precise description of an ambiguous world, or an ambiguous description of a precise world? This is the modernist fallacy: to think that conceptual blurriness correctly describes a blurry world. To me, this is silly and irrational. Ambiguous theories are flawed; they aren't positive arguments for "true ambiguity".
Released:
May 26, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Interviews with intellectuals from across the globe. Exploring philosophy, politics, religion, and rationalism. Steve Patterson is an independent philosopher currently traveling the world to interview people in the pursuit of truth. Topics include logic and epistemology, skepticism, metaphysics, ethics, science and religion, truth, Christianity, Buddhism, atheism, culture, economics, the philosophy of mathematics, and every other topic that's important to humans.