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History versus Physics, with Isabela Granic and Sam Biagetti

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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Why History Is Not the Only Discipline That Doesn't Have a Good Understanding of Meta

If you make any claim about causation, you're then necessarily implying a counterfactual claim. Say x caused y, you're necessarily implying without x there would be no y. This is a really important insight, and it's one that the Buddha talks about in his sutta. And I mean, it's also fascinating just to think about if there is this kind of spectrum, we talked about nomathatic and ideographic.

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