You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys where at one point

said on doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 286 is something like what is causality, and we read Nicholas

Malbranche's dialogues and metaphysics and religion, dialogues 5 through 7 plus selections

from 8, 9, and 12. From 1688, for more information please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com.

This is Mark Litzer-Meyer, Madison, Wisconsin, and I lost the power over the part of my brain

by which every change in the world is invariably followed by some new thought.

This is Seth Paschkin in Austin, Texas. Oddly, only occasionally, but always. Directed by God,

to follow his will.

This is Wes Allon, very much enjoying the laws of the union of soul and body and Cambridge

Massachusetts.

And this is Dylan Casey, occasionally colliding with the bookcase and getting a bruise

in Madison, Wisconsin.

All right, we are continuing more or less from last time.

Wes was wondering if we actually got all the way to the end of dialogue for last time,

I think we at least talked about all the themes from those first four dialogues last time,

and there were things that we are confused about about how the epistemology worked that

I think we should be able to sort out this time, so maybe we should start off just kind

of reviewing our new understanding based on what happened last time in the first couple

dialogues here of what his rationalist epistemology amounts to.

Do you guys remember what the issues we had? I remember we were kind of wondering, oh,

man, we've been through the holidays. That's like a lifetime ago.

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