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We're listening to partially examined life episode 285 Part 2 on Nicholas Mollabranches

dialogues and metaphysics and religion dialogues one through four.

Let's get into more quotes, more specific arguments.

I don't know.

What do you guys have highlighted or whatnot that would be fun to read?

So one of the interesting things about, so this is in section 8, where he'll say sensations

are not good evidence of an external mind-in-appended reality because we have hallucinations and

so on.

We know if the things that exist, even though they can't be sensed, and he mentions air,

but think about atoms, right?

Then even if we assume that external material objects constrain sensations or cause them,

it turns out they don't, without God's connecting things.

But he says, we'll talk about that later.

He says, have their own internal constraints in relation to the intelligible world, right?

So we can't just think the 2 plus 2 equals 5.

We can't think self-contradictory things.

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