Truth Be Told

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4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:08.2	From New York City, this is Luxicon Valley, a podcast about language.
0:12.2	I'm John McWater, and today I want to talk about truth.
0:16.8	What happens to truth?
0:20.1	You can think about truth and...
0:22.1	...true and... and tree.
0:24.0	You know that tree comes from the same root as true.
0:27.1	It's all about being straight.
0:29.8	Straight up and true, true like a tree.
0:33.2	What happens to truth?
0:34.4	And you know, this is not a philosophy podcast.
0:37.8	You know, there's so many podcasts that I assume there must probably be hundreds of philosophy podcasts.
0:43.0	This is not one of them.
0:44.8	And this isn't a podcast about intellectual history.
0:47.3	I'll bet there aren't as many of those, but this is not one of those either.
0:50.1	This is supposed to be about linguistics.
0:52.2	And so what I'm calling truth in that portentous way is kind of a substitute for opening music
0:59.1	for this monologue.
1:00.7	Really is about words like true.
1:05.2	Words like true, like true itself or real or actual...
1:10.5	What happens to those words?
1:11.5	Because something does happen to those words.
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