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Welcome to rationally speaking, the podcast where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense.

I'm your host, Massimo Pilucci, and me as always is my co-host, Julia Galev.

Julia, what are we going to talk about today? As if I didn't know.

This topic was proposed by a one, Massimo Pilucci, and it has a lovely exotic sounding name.

We'll be discussing the concept of scientia, which I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing that correctly,

to be honest.

Well, that's what we keep in this out, right?

Oh, good.

Well, if you say I said it right, then it must be correct.

So scientia, we're going to talk about what that means. My understanding. Well, if you say I said it right, then it must be correct.

So scientia, we're going to talk about what that means.

My understanding of it is that it's sort of the process of scientific inquiry and discovery and understanding.

So we're going to talk about different forms of inquiry and understanding, maybe touch on what the difference is between knowing something and understanding it, different approaches like mathematical, logical, philosophical,

and empirical inquiry.

And in the course of our discussion, we may well end up touching on Massimo's latest venture, Skientia Salon.

That's right. Okay. So my first question, actually, Massimo, which I've honestly been curious

about because I haven't gotten a chance to discuss with you is about the motivation behind

Skientia Salon, because you scrapped rationally speaking

in favor of Skia Salon.

So I'm curious what you see is the difference or like what were you hoping to achieve with

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