Hello, everyone. I'm Stephen West. This is philosophize this. Thank you to the over 600 generous people

that make this show possible by supporting it on Patreon. And those of you that go through the

Amazon banner, thank you as well. I hope you all love the show today. So something we haven't

talked about for quite some time on this show are the questions that naturally arise if, well,

if you're the kind of person like me, and you do the sort of massacistic things I like to do for fun.

You know, I'll wake up in the morning. I'll beat myself with reads. Sometimes I like to

like my torso on fire just to see what it feels like. And after a long day of that, I like to close out

my evenings by doing a very similar sort of activity. I like to question the deep philosophical

problems at the root of a pistomology. You know, all the fun stuff. How do we know what we know?

How do we know? We know that's what we know. You know, all the really fulfilling questions to ask.

But you know, these kinds of questions definitely have their uses. The process of asking these kinds of

questions that may at first seem like they're completely pointless. Oftentimes lead us to some of

the most revolutionary ideas and philosophy. Like what about daycart? Daycart sitting around one day

in his stove, and he's asking himself a question that may seem like it's a complete waste of time.

How do I know that any of this stuff around me actually exists? I mean, I see it. I can touch it.

But how can I really know that any of this stuff exists? How can I know for certain that I'm not

a brain and a vat somewhere? You know, that actual reality is somewhere else and that this reality

has just been created and maintained by some sort of evil demon that's constantly trying to deceive me.

May it first seem like a pretty crazy idea. But really, if it is so crazy,

shouldn't I be able to come up with a way to prove that it's not the case? You know, these kinds of

questions to the average person, they're not just confusing to ask. They can actually be kind of

annoying to them. Like what's the point of asking stuff like this? What's the point of asking if the

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