You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who at one point said on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it.

We are continuing on Aristotle's metaphysics.

This is episode 336, so you might want to listen to 335 first.

In this segment, our questions will be,

how can we study what it is like for anything to just be,

what justifies the principle of non-contradiction,

and is truth relative?

That's a lot packed in there, all in metaphysics book 4 aka Gama.

This is Mark Linson Meyer identical to Mark Linson Meyer sitting down in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Westall, one not at the same time in the same respect, not Westall one in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey confident that I am not a battleship in Madison, Wisconsin, or a tri-ree, depending upon your

translation.

You're sometimes not West Allwyn, but just at a particular time.

We're in a particular time. We're in particular respect.

So this was a barrel of fun just like last time.

We're, we've now expanded this if it's not clear into four, four discussions. Seth, he says he's having

travel problems and that it's not that he just had some allergic reaction to this text.

I didn't get the impression that his dog was prevented from coming back into the United States

and so they're stuck in Mexico until Tuesday.

What are you doing bringing your dog to Mexico? Come now.

The Rutledge companion had three different chapters

corresponding to those three questions

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