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More Christ Episode Eighty-Nine: Dr Spencer Klavan: C.S. Lewis, Dostoevsky, & the Classical Education You've Been Missing

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Is There a Limit of Our Language?

Spencer: One of the big stumbling blocks for someone like Bernardo Castro he seems to have this conception of the kind of Christian God as metacognitive a perceiving reality in the same sort of way that we do. He resorts I think to an intuition or instinct from below as it were and he's very influenced by figures like Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Spencer: It also speaks to exactly the problem that we're trying to get because this Laplacian notion right that there you know if a perfect mind could see know the location and momentum of all particles in the universe at any one time then that perfect mind would have knowledge of all the motion of those particles up until

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