You are 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 question for episode 353 is something like, how does knowledge relate to vision?

We read a chapter six of seeing from Thomas Reed's inquiry into the human mind on the principles of common sense from 1764 continuing our discussion of that book from our prior episode.

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This is Mark Linson Meyer, with eyes distorted in unnatural directions

from Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin, untutored by modern philosophy in Austin, Texas.

This is Westall I deferring to the common sense of mankind in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey uncovering laws of nature as an explanation of cause and effect in Madison,

Wisconsin.

And so we continue this on-scene chapter is more than half the book and we didn't read the whole thing maybe you did west did you read the whole thing almost the squinting

two chapters scimmed over the squint I squinted at the squinting.

I thought it was hilarious that there was...

Three chapters I think on double vision.

Yeah, so much information on squinting.

Yeah, so he has some very technical chapters

involving vision and the inversion of the image

on the retina and various optical illusions

and what that means.

So I, you know, in our final assignment for this,

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