You're listening to the Partially examined Life, a podcast by some guys who are at one

point set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 259 is something like, what are complex ideas and how can they

go wrong?

We're reading the second half of book two of John Locke's Unessing Concerned Human

Understanding from 1689. More information please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com. This

is Mark Linson-Mirror Complex yet not conceptually confusing in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Wes Alwin attempting to enumerate all my constituent ideas and Cambridge Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey furnished with a great number of simple ideas conveyed in by my senses

fit for my simple turn of mind in Madison, Wisconsin.

I like that simple turn of mind. You're feeling the Seth, usually self-assigned role. Trying

to double dip.

Seth being out today, I think we should raise alarm among our listeners that his wife

was exposed. Doesn't necessarily have COVID, but was exposed. And so there's a whole internal,

basically he's taking care of his child. But that is why we have no Seth and why we probably

should not do a full on Part 4 of this because he's Miss Part 3. You can't have somebody

miss Part of it. I don't know. We can figure that out later. But man, book one, kind of manageable,

a nice little thing we could chew. Last time, somewhat bigger. We had to pick and choose a little.

This even just finishing book two, pretty sprawling. A lot of rabbit holes we could potentially

disappear down for a whole episode on free will, on personal identity, on substance. So I had

suggested we start more or less from the end of the book where he's talking about there's

like four different criteria and how ideas can go wrong.

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