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Ep. 307: G.E. Moore Defends Common Sense (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Getting the Best of You, Seth?

Seth Godin: It would be very strange to either say, well, you think you have a pretty good idea of what perceiving a table, perceiving a chair, receiving another person is. But actually either you can't actually know that; so we're skeptics or they're actually just a bunch of swirling ideas. He says he's not a direct realist as far as I can tell in this paper because he understands the phenomenologically we're seeing ellipses standing in for things that are circles. That's a huge problem for direct naive realism. godin: When everything becomes idea in some sense, you lose this connection to the possibility of other subjectivities.

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