Ep 158: Knowledge and Ignorance Part 1
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I Don't Understand Clear and Tremendous Ideas
When Poppa first started university he went and studied philosophy I hadn't encountered proper yet but I did encounter you know daycarts who would talk about this clear and distinct ideas. No matter how much the lecturers and tutors would try and explain to me this concept of clear and distinct idea I didn't get it already then I was a fallible to the kind. He says Cartesian intellectualism alas has been only too often distorted into one or another of the various forms of modern irrationalism. The british school insisted that the ultimate source of all knowledge was observation while the continental school insisted that it was the intellectual intuition ofclear and distinct ideas end quote.
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