
Ep. 285: Nicolas Malebranche on Knowledge (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Chain of Reasoning
Dillon: There are times, especially when he gets out of this staring googly eyed at the universal light of reason, right? And just talking about how glorious and wonderful it is. He wants to give an explanation of resonance between two vibrating strings. We're going to do that in scientific terms, right? In terms that all of us to day would recognize as straightforwardly naturalistic and scientific. The way you have to think through this is that one thing's linked to another links to another. So i'll be interested to talk about that aspect of it. It does not make sense to us how something that only has mechanistic properties, only has motion, only has extension,
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