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Ep. 285: Nicolas Malebranche on Knowledge (Part One)

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The Discourse on Method Condelecti He Followed in Descartes' Pass

It doesn't read like a traditional sceptical epistemological thing. He's got some very interesting observations about why the intelligible world is truth as the sensory world is not, but he's not playing around with notions of yourEpistemic grasp of the sensible. This is really the most platonic feeling figure from the modern arab more so than descartes. I'm leading you instead to an intelligible, meditative kind of state, looking inward. If you can shut all your senses down, that would be even better right? N they have a thing, but the beginning should be, turned the lights off. Well, no, even the dark might freak you out.

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