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🗓️ 16 November 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, hi, everybody. Hope you doing well, so we're having a good debate or discussion on the nature of truth. |
| 0:07.4 | This is coming from a fellow named Bob. |
| 0:10.7 | And the question is, is it possible for something to be accidentally true? |
| 0:16.2 | So if I murmur, what does two and two make? |
| 0:20.0 | And a golfer yells four, he doesn't even heard me, |
| 0:23.0 | maybe he yells four, has he accurately answered the question? Is his response true? I argue that |
| 0:30.6 | it's not. I argue that truth is the result of a process, not an accidental coincidence. |
| 0:40.9 | So Bob is saying, hello, Steph, I am listening to show 6162, cursor currently positioned at about 44 minutes, and you have been arguing for some time |
| 0:47.9 | with a gentleman about the meaning of truth. Since her argument started, I have been feeling an |
| 0:52.5 | increasing sense of unrest and active rejection, The pinnacle of which happened when I heard you saying that a madman in the middle age is ranting, that the earth revolved around the sun, wouldn't be making a true statement. I felt properly annoyed by that point. Yeah, so this is my case. If there's some guy, he's got, I don't know, I guess it wouldn't be syphilis, |
| 1:12.0 | because this is prior to the discovery of the new world which transmitted syphilis back to Europe, |
| 1:16.3 | but if you had a madman in the Middle Ages who ranted that unicorns existed, there were demons in his room, |
| 1:25.2 | and the earth went around the sun, him saying that the earth goes around the sun is not a true statement, but rather the |
| 1:30.9 | ranting of a madman. The fact that it happens to later coincide with a true statement is a |
| 1:38.5 | coincidence, but there's no truth in the statement. And I sort of mentioned if a blind man hits a tennis ball perfectly, he's not a |
| 1:46.9 | good tennis player. It's just an unusual coincidence. All right. He said, I soon identified, |
| 1:52.7 | Bob says, I soon identified this feeling as the reaction to an attempt to redefine a fundamental |
| 1:57.0 | word in the vocabulary. I have been using for my whole life an attempt, which was not made |
| 2:01.6 | by just anyone that I could ignore, but by Sivan Molyneux himself, in an argument that was not free from |
| 2:07.2 | reference to your undeniable, I say, prime skills and debates, almost turning it into an argument |
| 2:12.4 | from authority. Well, that's a minor bit of an ad-harm. I am not, I don't think I've ever said I'm right because I'm me. |
| 2:21.5 | I mean, that would be pretty bad as a philosopher. |
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