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PREMIUM-Episode 48: Merleau-Ponty on Perception and Knowledge

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Pythagorean Theorem Isn't Like a Logical Truth

Pythagorean theorem is not a logical truth. It depends on the parallel postulate which says that parallel lines don't meet no matter how far you extend them. We arrive at this contradiction the imminence and transcendence, and you have what west jus was talking about. So i am still not completely clear on what it is to say that perception, or the world as revealed by perception, is paradoxical. Is it just that there are these different aspects that seem very different from each other? And so at first blush, there appear to be dictions. There's the easiest kind of and that perception is just replete with that kind of seeming para. In that case

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