You are listening to the partially examined life episode 347 part two recorded on a completely different day than part one,

with not quite the same group of people.

We're going to talk more about the Nyaya Sutra.

We read Chapter 4 on Self this time.

This is Mark Litzenmeyer existing only for an instant, but leaving traces for eternity.

This is Seth Paskin experiencing whatever it is that Mark is experiencing in Austin, Texas.

This is Dylan Casey capable of cognizing anything in Madison, Wisconsin.

All right, let's get down to it.

It's the self, we get to apply the methodological things

from chapters one and two.

Two was more about methodology,

and we didn't really talk about two so maybe we can

bring in I don't know at least we see the Tarka in action which I mentioned before so

this is at least argument by elimination yes so when something is

actually being challenged, right?

We assume epismologically that if something seems to be supported by one of the

knowledge sources, then we can just slot it in is, that's knowledge knowledge baby and we can build our towering edifice of science on that

But as soon as somebody actually has a live issue with what we're arguing about then we have to bring in some sort of more sophisticated

argumentation and not just rely on the first knowledge source.

So as Seth was just saying, okay, well we got two options now, mostly it's just going to be I want to

eliminate the other one I want to show that it's garbage and then mine that's still

remaining on its original evidence persists there or if you tried to knock down

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