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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Blue Is Not Out There, It's in Here
Newton took notes in the philosophical questions on stuff that was traditionally given to you in the curriculums going back several hundred years. Newton is picking up as he reads Descartes. He's going to disagree with a lot in Descartes, but that break, he is among other things, picking up very strongly. That underlies a lot of the way he works later on when he becomes skeptical of the evidence provided by the senses.
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