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#49 - How to Keep an Open Mind... Like a Skeptic!

Classical Wisdom Speaks

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You Can't Do Anything if You Don't Have Any Definite Views

In antiquity, there was a standard criticism of the sceptics: you can't do anything if you don't have any definite views. What he says is, well, no, you can. You can go along with the way things appear. That's fine. And things strike you in a certain way, and you can go with the appearances without ever committing yourselves to how things really are. Well, and i guess, just to live life without ever having any judgment. I mean, sems tak, it would be hard to accomplish anything. He claims that the sceptic is closer to a sort of regular people than the hypolutent, abstract theorists of other philosophies.

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