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Ep. 282: Alain Badiou: What Is Philosophy? (Part One)

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What Is Sophism?

Sophists are those for whom the fundamental tion is not between truth and error or errancy, but between speech and silence. I do recall when we were doing the tractatus, that there is an image sort of toward the end about a asi - it's sort of like william james's blooming, buzzing confusion of experience. But since in the tructatus fit consignis does basic metaphysics, ontology, he's concerned with the atomic facts. So i guess this is one of the questions i had in badu, as we go forward here: Where do these unexpected events, these novel predictions, these new philosophic truths come from? Are they

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