{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"#29 Charlie \u2013 Is Truth Knowable? \u00a0","description":"  Today is a different show. I\u2019m calling it a \u201csolo-sode.\u201d Just me, and Paul Today I plan to delve into a very unusual philosophical conversation that impacts us regularly. I want to talk about \u201chow we know what we know.\u201d Philosophers call it epistemology. It\u2019s a very tricky discipline. The ultimate question is \u201cWhat is truth and how does you know what you call truth is true?\u201d Especially, when extremely intelligent people disagree with you. Time Magazine\u2019s cover story this week is, \u201cIs Truth Dead?\u201d After all truth cannot really be proven. I see three disciplines: philosophical, scientific, and moral or ethical truth. The first, philosophical truth, I refuse to even discuss. For more than 3 thousand years philosophers have wrestled with this question and arrived at dozens of conclusions. I\u2019m not going there. Secondly, scientists believe theories are true because they can be \u201cproven.\u201d Well\u2026 that\u2019s true, as long as you accept the current methodology of proof\u2014math. I\u2019m comfortable with that\u2026 until some form of Artificial Intelligence (or human) discovers some new methodology. Which is certainly possible. But for now, scientific proof is even debatable. Different scientists studying the same subject have multiple hypotheses based on the same science. Okay\u2026 the world is not flat. That is truth. But Aristotle was saying that thousands of years ago. But I am much more concerned with ethical\/moral truth. That\u2019s our subject today.    You can get more information and regular updates for Charlie at thenextchapter.life ","author_name":"The Next Chapter with Charlie","author_url":"http:\/\/thenextchapterwithcharlie.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"