
Ep. 286: Malebranche on Causality and Theology (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Big Deal Is Schematization, Right?
Philosophy is about whether geometrical knowledge can be acquired through the senses, or whether we must have innate ideas already of the stuff. The big dminus is plato, right? This is his oldest ato. He makes it clear in these latter sections of the dialogues that we're sort of walking on a razor's edge at all times. And as i think you were saying for wes, that the imagination is really sort of a dopple ganger,. It's only one level abstracted from the sensible world. So that the imagination, even just shutting out our eyes, doesn't tell us what real stuff tells us. We have some access to the real
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