
Ep 192: Where do ideas come from?
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The Importance of Imagination
What we think we perceive just might not be so. We may guess reliably well and come to solve our problems some of the time but none of that ever confers certainty. Descartes reached the unsurprising conclusion that ideas originate within him and sometimes against his will very well. Let's move on to a manual cart. Cart in his celebrated critique of pure reason which by the way is a book that Karl Popper himself praised as being a great advance in epistemology for its almost but not quite outline of his own critical rationalist philosophy.
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