Chapter 2: Violations of the Principle of Generosity<a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/philosophyandfiction/p/truth-and-generosity-how-truth-makes-453?r=schg4&#38;utm_campaign=post&#38;utm_medium=web">Given our current political divides, would you say we live in different realities?</a>There are invisible things the necessity of which is most poignantly known by their absence. Air is one of them. The principle of generosity is another... This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://philosophyandfiction.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">philosophyandfiction.substack.com/subscribe</a>

Truth and Generosity: Chapter 3

It doesn't matter whether you're conservative or liberal, religious or skeptical, the very fact you are able to understand the words you're reading right now—that we are all able to communicate with each other using language—means we must share a vast body of beliefs. While language may shape the way we think about the world to some small extent, it makes much more sense to say truth shapes language to a very large extent. That’s the central argument of this book:

Truth is the condition that makes language possible. philosophyandfiction.substack.com