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Experience Trumps Facts
FromA Point of View
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Length:
10 minutes
Released:
Nov 20, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
In the week where his appointment to the Equality and Human Rights Commission has come in for criticism, David Goodhart defends objective facts over personal experience.
"Our knowledge of the world is usually some sort of balance between personal experience and abstract ideas," he writes. "But the focus on the primacy of subjective experience....can go too far."
Producer: Adele Armstrong
"Our knowledge of the world is usually some sort of balance between personal experience and abstract ideas," he writes. "But the focus on the primacy of subjective experience....can go too far."
Producer: Adele Armstrong
Released:
Nov 20, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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