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Hey, this is the partialexaminalife episode 309.

Part two we've been discussing Vittgenstein's on certainty. I think we've gotten a lot of,

I want to say themes, but is it theme? I don't know if there's, there's different facets of

the single theme that we've tried to push here. Should we just do some close reading from the

beginning of the text and use that to then re-explore things or were there points that you feel like

you were interrupted and you want to say more, extend more what we're doing in the first part first.

I definitely don't want to do a closer reading. If we can bring pieces of the text in as

as exemplars, but I can't recommend that we just kind of grind through.

We're not going to have time to do that anyway, so we will have to pick out critical points.

I have my own synopsis of a lot of this, but there are like some key, what are we calling them?

These numbers, aphorisms, aphorisms, but I mean they're not really.

I think we could read the first one since it gives people the flavor. In case they don't want to

actually open the book and read the fray first thing. It's kind of funny because it almost looks

like a joke. It's like, is he making fun of more on this? It's a number one. If you do know that

here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest. So he's beginning where more ends his

purf of the external world. And does that do justice to what more was saying, we kind of gave a

pretty elaborate account of what we thought more was up to there and having to do with what it

meant for something to be met with in the space and therefore logically independent of any particular

perception and therefore mind-to-dependent. Bikinstein doesn't go into any of that. He's more

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