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Analysis is off air at the moment, so we thought you might enjoy this program recorded in everyone's favorite

abstract pub. Matthew Sweet returns to the philosopher's arms. The only pub in the country where at the end of the night they called time, being and nothingness.

As we're a largely conceptual booser,

it's been easy for us to open our doors here

at the Edinburgh Festival, where to my great horror

I see that were classed as comedy.

So this may turn out to be the most embarrassing moment

in the history of philosophy

since the Glasgow Empire booked Carl Popper

under the impression that he was a novelty balloon act.

Anyway, as usual on the philosopher's arms, we're going to hear Barroom philosophers and real life professional philosophers

tussling all over the yeasty woodwork.

And on this program I'm going to entice you to transgress, to break the law of the land. Can you sense the sudden change of atmosphere in the room, the

sudden unease? I can. The land lady of the philosopher's arms has given her

consent to do something illegal here.

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