Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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What if...guys, are you listening? What if the subjects of scientific theories...ACTUALLY EXIST?! OOOOOOH SNAP

(Additional thanks to davidar!)

- Links for the Curious -

China is promoting coronavirus treatments based on unproven traditional medicines - nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01284-x

Scientific Realism (The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/#MiraArgu

The Meaning of “Meaning” (Putnam, 1975) - drive.google.com/file/d/15-QfxNqHl9ZyyumQzyzAzEzpnKGDisKQ/view?usp=sharing

Realism: Deconstructing the Debate (Blackburn, 2002) - drive.google.com/file/d/1XO0XcIT0_4nKI6H4p_kCUuhlZ-MSWdbH/view?usp=sharing

Dewey’s Social Ontology: A Pragmatist Alternative to Searle’s Approach to Social Reality (Testa, 2016).pdf - drive.google.com/file/d/1sQ87o-xU030PU-qXWJWEuutHRBzL4SwL/view?usp=sharing

Grasping at Realist Straws (Saatsi, 2009) - http://users.uoa.gr/~psillos/PapersI/25-symposium-Stanford.pdf

58. The Problem of Induction | THUNK - youtube.com/watch?v=xu6kkLJ58Z0

88. Hume's Guillotine & Rational Morality | THUNK - youtube.com/watch?v=UwkSA8nqmdI

79. Science, Pseudoscience, & the Demarcation Problem | THUNK - youtube.com/watch?v=8dmOmprI0v4