You're listening to the Partsley Exam in Life, a podcast by some guys where at one point

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

Our question for episode 282 is something like what is philosophy?

We read the first three chapters of Alan by Dues book Conditions, which make a part one

philosophy itself, published in 1992.

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This is Mark Linsomire forgetting the forgetting of the forgetting of my lunch in medicine

Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin thinking the seizura between Judaism and Christianity and Austin

Texas.

This is Wes Awan indicating the void of category of truth, qua limit point, and Cambridge

Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey being crushed in the sublime pincer of truth in medicine Wisconsin.

Alright, I land by Dues.

We have not done anything contemporary French philosophy in a while.

He is contemporary of delus which we did long, long ago.

And in both cases we're dealing with books that are dealing with what is philosophy because

he's got his own, but Dues has his own unique language that for us to read anything that

he might want to say about art, about love, about mathematics requires that we get over

this initial hump and just figure out what the hell he's talking about.

Yeah.

And he's been in the same way as I was in the last five years.

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