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The Remarkable Philosophy of the TV Show “House”

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In his essay for “Uncertainty,” the second issue of Nautilus, David Deutsch explains why you can never be entirely sure that a thought is undoubtedly correct. Despite that, he says we can still learn true things about the world, and that information be used in important pursuits like medicine.

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In the clip below, Deutsch identifies someone who both gets the philosophy of fallibility and knows how to apply it to medicine: the TV doctor Gregory House. To hear more about Deutsch’s thoughts on the subject, watch the rest of his interview with Nautilus, or read his essay

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