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Ep. 264: Plato's "Timaeus" on Cosmology (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Probabilistic Model of the Universe

"It's likely that it works this way because it makes sense. It explains a bunch of stuff," he says. "No matter how fantastic your model is, it's kind of like the epicycles thing with describing the heavenly motions" He adds: "At some level, you can still count for things."

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