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EPISODE · May 26, 2017 · 6 MIN

Is the World Blurry? | The Modernist Fallacy

from Patterson in Pursuit · host Steve Patterson

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". Get full access to Steve Patterson's Substack at stevepatterson.substack.com/subscribe

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