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Tribalism, Community, and Politics

November 16, 2016 5 Comments

by Daniel A. Kaufman My discussion with Robert Wright on the moral and cultural dimensions of the election.  Originally aired on MeaningofLife.TV, November 14, 2016.

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  • Mini Symposium on Truth: Sartwell and Kaufman on Theories of Truth February 17, 2019
    by Daniel A. Kaufman My discussion with Crispin Sartwell of Dickinson College on theories of truth.  Originally aired on the Sophia program, MeaningofLife.TV, February 12, 2019.
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    by E. John Winner ___ Most of what I know about logic I learned studying Aristotle, Kant, and Peirce.  However, I did take an introductory undergraduate course in symbolic logic.  The surprising take-away was that with a properly formed compound sentence, one could assert just about anything, and still hold the assertion, as a whole, to be true.  In short, [ […]
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