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Ep 159: Knowledge and Ignorance Part 2

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The One Thing That You Can't Doubt

Sam Harris says there's one thing that you can't doubt, and that's your own existence. But as I've argued before, he doesn't think this is the case because you can doubt a whole bunch of things. Descartes wanted knowledge to be certain in some way, shape or form for us to know it as being true. And Saint Anselms had an idea that if you can imagine a being more perfect than every other being, which you can do, just try it. It wouldn't have an imperfect body like regular human beings walking around. Because otherwise it would lack the thing, only existence, that we already have. So this is the ontological argument: imagining

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