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PREMIUM-Ep. 282: Alain Badiou: What Is Philosophy? (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Is There a Life After Death?

Philosophy is not science, but its about the same thing as something meto right? Take any domain where we think that we can produce truths with a small t. We're no longer making rical statements in our operational void - which is to say there isn't a truth at all. The only void that is presented in thought is the void that the mathematicians call the null set. As we shall see, the void of truth is a simple interval by which philosophy operates on truths that are external to it. And you get cantian construction, and you get contemporary structuralism as a descendant ofat all. That stuff emerges out of a certain type of engagement with mathematics and science

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