
PREMIUM-Episode 30: Schopenhauer on Explanations and Knowledge
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is There a Causality in the World?
Schopenhauer says we can't use the term causality to refer to the relation of the thing in itself to our experience. Causality is something within experience, period. Logical entailment is another thing. And then the other two, just to give the names of them here, are being in space and time. Two things can't be in the same spot at the same time. It's not a causal reason for that. It's just that that's the nature of ac. The last one is the law of motives, this experience we have of ourselves as willing creatures,. oh, how our motives drive us to do various things. So there's more to say about
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