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He bless you, Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy podcast, brought to you with the support of the philosophy department at Kings College

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Today's episode, It's All good, the transcendentals.

Normally I make an effort to spare you the technical jargon that typically festoons philosophical prose. I assume that people listening to

podcasts while they are jogging or washing the dishes don't really want to fight their way through

the sort of phrases I use all the time in my day job, like internalistic epistemic theory of justification,

jointly necessary and sufficient conditions, or full-bodied medium roast.

A lot of the best philosophy is done during coffee breaks. But with the

medievals, it's often tempting to make an exception. This isn't just because they were such

lovers of technical terminology, it's also because their conceptual breakthroughs often

went together with the development of fine distinctions. In some cases, what may seem a case of

mere scholastic hair splitting has survived to become a standard instrument in the

toolkit of today's philosophers.

An excellent example is the contrast between extentionalational and intentional.

We're going to find this distinction useful for today's episode,

so I hope it won't ruin your morning run

or evening washup if I take a moment to explain it.

The basic idea is that you can think of or talk about one in the same thing or group of things in more than one way.

George Clinton, for instance, was the leader of the sole-drenched jazz organ infused 1970s band Funkadelic

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