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

set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better

of it.

Our questions for episode 346 are something like what are legitimate sources of knowledge and

when is doubt about them appropriate and we read the first two chapters of the Matthew

dasty Stephen Phillips 2017 presentation of the Nyaya Sutra selections

with early commentaries the Nyaya Sutra was probably initiated around 150 CE at the latest by the

sutra maker historically referred to as Ashkapada Gautama with commentaries in this book running up through the subsequent 800 years.

For more information about this book and the podcast please see

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This is Mark Linton Meyer, the Uncontroverted in Madison, Wisconsin. This is Mark Linton Meyer the uncontroverted in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin, Tarkin and Jiven in Delray Beach, Florida.

This is Westallown acting on the basis of questionable knowledge sources in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey drawing something similar to something familiar in Madison, Wisconsin.

How's everybody doing?

We have a morning discussion in a while.

Sunday morning is our official discussion time, but we just haven't done it.

We haven't, we haven't, somebody's been not free for months seemingly.

Yeah, I can't remember the last time we did a morning session, honestly.

It's refreshing, except that I'm in a hotel room anxiously awaiting for people to get on with their days so that I don't have any background noise.

I thought you were going to say it's refreshing except for the text that we're doing, which was a little bit punishingly boring and it was my choice but what did you guys think?

Okay, when you wrote that I was a little bit surprised honestly because when I first started reading it and I was like, oh God, more epistemology,

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