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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
27 Jul 2016 Conversations with Tyler Michael Orthofer on Why Fiction Matters
“If someone said, “Oh, I think Robert Heinlein is the greatest author ever to have walked on Earth,” that would be considered absurd.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- Claim type
- belief
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- 27 Jul 2016
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…That is, probably. Yes, that probably is. If you think of all of your beliefs about literature, books, fiction — or you can go more broadly if you’d like — what’s the belief you hold that other smart people you respect would find the most absurd? If someone said, “Oh, I think Robert Heinlein is the greatest author ever to have walked on Earth,” that would be considered absurd. It’s not my belief, probably not yours. What’s your craziest view relative to the other people you think are smart and respect? In a literary sense?…
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