Hey, you're listening to the Partially Exam in Life, a preview to our follow-up discussion

on Episode 205.

Wes, all one and I talked for an hour and ten minutes.

We're going to play you some highlights here, both to make you want to go listen to the

whole thing and hopefully to provide enough discussion here that it's intrinsically interesting.

We spent a lot of the time this discussion getting into more details from Emil Durkheim's

book Suicide.

I guess there's just, first of all, the issue of a sociological versus a psychological approach.

For one, he said, you can't actually know individual circumstances why somebody killed themselves,

or at least, you know, it's not the norm to know that.

What the government officials write down is the cause of death, or the reason for the cause

of death is not going to be very accurate.

So he wanted to talk about this sociological fact.

It's not just that we just can't know, but we can't know by taking the individual cases

and generalizing them to the sociological cases, which is kind of what I would assume

to be the case.

And he thought there were these free-floating autonomous sociological facts that you could

analyze.

We can get into a couple of quotes about that.

Do you have any thoughts in that area?

This is on 44 of the Roman numerals.

So it appears that this total is not simply a sum of independent limits, a collective

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