Timothy Ott

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So each of us sees his gods, and his world, from his own point of view, according to his tradition and his upbringing; and none of us is exempt from this subjective bias. This argument has been developed in various ways; and it has been argued that our race, or our nationality, or our historical background, or our historical period, or our class interest, or our social habitat, or our language, or our personal background knowledge, is an insurmountable, or an almost insurmountable, barrier to objectivity. The facts on which this argument is based must be admitted; and indeed, we can never rid ...more
The Open Society and Its Enemies (Princeton Classics)
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