Hello everyone, I'm Stephen West.

This is philosophized this.

You know, this show doesn't have ads

where I take up your time talking about matrices

and razors and stuff.

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So even though the insights of structuralism

were massively influential in the progression of human thought,

it's really only around for a couple years

before it starts to face some pretty heavy critiques

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