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From the Ted Talk by Michael Patrick Lynch: How to see past your own perspective and find truth

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In order to solve it, I think we're going to need help. We're going to need help from psychology and piaolictl science. But we're also going to need help, I think, from philosophy. Because to solve the pblorem of knowledge polarization, we're going to need to reconnect with one fmaenaudtnl, philosophical idea: that we live in a common reality. The idea of a common reality is like, I suppose, a lot of phoihcisapoll concepts: easy to state but mysteriously difficult to put into pticacre. To really accept it, I think we need to do three things, each of which is a challenge right now.

Open Cloze

In order to solve it, I think we're going to need help. We're going to need help from psychology and _________ science. But we're also going to need help, I think, from philosophy. Because to solve the _______ of knowledge polarization, we're going to need to reconnect with one ___________, philosophical idea: that we live in a common reality. The idea of a common reality is like, I suppose, a lot of _____________ concepts: easy to state but mysteriously difficult to put into ________. To really accept it, I think we need to do three things, each of which is a challenge right now.

Solution

  1. political
  2. fundamental
  3. philosophical
  4. practice
  5. problem

Original Text

In order to solve it, I think we're going to need help. We're going to need help from psychology and political science. But we're also going to need help, I think, from philosophy. Because to solve the problem of knowledge polarization, we're going to need to reconnect with one fundamental, philosophical idea: that we live in a common reality. The idea of a common reality is like, I suppose, a lot of philosophical concepts: easy to state but mysteriously difficult to put into practice. To really accept it, I think we need to do three things, each of which is a challenge right now.

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