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Lift Every Voice, Not Every Echo

The democratic ideal requires people to think for themselves critically rather than participate in an echo chamber or tribal consensus; pluralism at a high epistemic level, where diverse voices enter public space and are heard through mechanisms of accountability, is essential and avoids both reductionism and sophomoric epistemic relativism.

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Speaker

Cornel West

Evidence Quote

You're not gonna slide down a slippery slope to any kind of sophomoric epistemic relativism. But you are gonna have a contextualism and recognizing the ways in which our different expressions... have to be able to enter public space without humiliation

Source

121 | Cornel West on What Democracy Is and Should BeSean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:19:17 AM

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