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Today's episode is part two in a series on Delus. I hope you love the show today.

So just a quick recap.

Philosophy is the art of concept creation.

The thousands of years of philosophers constructing these systems of ontology that try to describe the way things are

has universally been thought of as a process of discovery, the effort of people trying to discover fundamental truths that explain the way the world is.

To the deconstructionist postmodern thinkers that Delus is doing his work around, this makes the entire history of trying to say the way things are extremely suspect, if not entirely devoid of meaning.

After all, based on their worldview, there is no process of discovery going on. There is no truth to be arrived at.

Just thousands of years of unverifiable speculation.

But as we talked about last time, Delus makes a crucial turn here that's going to have massive implications on the direction of philosophy.

Like we talked about, Delus takes the turn of saying that maybe we should think of the entire history of philosophy as a process of creation rather than discovery.

No, let's begin the episode today by talking about why this distinction is so important.

And let's introduce a couple new terms from the work of Delus. It's going to let us dive deeper into this stuff.

So when it comes to every ontological system that's been devised throughout history, let's say you were going to try to create your very own ontological system.

One thing you're going to need if you ever want to get it off the ground are stable concepts.

Conceptual stability is one of the most important things you could possibly have.

Because if your concepts can't be identified, re-identified, and repeatedly identified every day of the week,

then what grounds your system? What holds your system together?

For example, the concept we have of the Sun. There's something about that burning balagas in the middle of the solar system that rises in the east and sets in the west

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