I spent a few weeks finishing Louis Menand’s The Metaphysical Club, on the birth of American Pragmatism. Reading Dan Wang’s 2020 letter makes me wonder about Chinese pragmatism instead: danwang.co/2020-letter/
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For what it’s worth, there appear to be many parallels to Singaporean pragmatism, but Lee Kuan Yew was too practical a man for long-winded takes on the nature of truth.