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🗓️ 7 February 2022
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Concluding on On Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion (1688), with consideration of his explanation for why we can't prove the existence of the external world, but that we can reasonably take this on faith. Also, theodicy!
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0:12.7 | dialogues on metaphysics and religion. |
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0:49.6 | It occurred to me while I was doing the blog posts for the first episodes on this for |
0:53.6 | the dialogues one through four that even those dialogues and metaphysics religion were |
0:58.4 | talking about epistemology almost exclusively. |
1:01.5 | And maybe that is something to do with just what we think metaphysics is. |
1:05.4 | You know the fact that like oh Barkley he's an empiricist so he must be doing epistemology |
1:10.5 | even though his conclusion that everything is ideas is a metaphysical one. |
1:15.8 | But you know that's just says something about how metaphysics has gotten shunted you know |
1:20.8 | in our tradition it's not like the primary thing like Plato's to me. |
1:25.5 | As where you're just spitballing on like what is the world like there is some of that. |
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