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Ep. 265: Plato's "Phaedo": Philosophy as Training for Death (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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How to Make Sense of the Real World

When we talk about the world, we have to use concept words. And if we don't do that, we don't get anywhere. We're working with what plato and socrates think of as the sort of paradime for knowledge - these unchanging, abstract entities. But there's still a basic empiricism about that epistemology because it's you relating to these images you've created which in turn somehow relate to the world out there.

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