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Book. You're listening to the partial examine life, podcast by some guys who are at one point set on doing philosophy for living but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 340 is something like, how can essentialism help us better understand

the world? And we read chapters 5 through 8 of

Brian Ellis's 2000 and book The Philosophy of Nature a Guide to the New Essentialism.

This is Wes Allwyn observing all the laws of nature in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Seth Paskin drinking with Dretsky and Duham in Austin, Texas.

This is Dylan Casey conserving my form momentum, essentially,

in Madison, Wisconsin.

And this is Christopher Heath, not being born great,

not achieving greatness, nor having greatness

thrust upon them in North Hollywood, California. in days. True, it's one of my.

So Dylan, welcome. You weren't able to make the first episode where we covered chapters one through four.

So I thought I'd start off by asking you

about your thoughts on that.

You had a chance to listen to our conversation about that.

So maybe you could catch us up on some of your thoughts

and we'll treat that as a segue into

chapters five through eight. Yeah so we really enjoyed the book and I thought you

guys did a really nice job covering it. My biggest takeaway from especially those sections is this whole idea that things have

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