21 March 2001 - philosophy simplified

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2001 : 21 March 2001
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Not The Usual Oversimplification, A Different One

Philosophical realism is the belief that when two ideas differ, at least one of them must be wrong. Idealism admits that the two ideas may be compatible. Postmodernist relativism holds that both ideas are irrelevant.


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