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show.

So if you've been listening to this show for at least a decent amount of time, you probably

notice something about philosophers in general by this point.

These people just love their thought experiments, don't they?

Thought experiments are an important part of philosophy.

See, as you know, philosophy often times tries to get us to think about ourselves and the

world in a slightly different way than we typically would.

The goal being that hopefully after doing these things, we can hack past the absolute

jungle of social conventions and prejudices and all these things that have been meticulously

programmed into a sense birth to hopefully get a more honest depiction of reality.

Not just a depiction of reality that has our particular culture and time period stamp

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