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Ep 165: Knowledge and Ignorance Part 5

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The Infinite Regress

The most basic words you can get down to themselves need definition. You're going to lead yourself into an infinite regress because any of these undefined concepts if you go about trying to define them it's going to be in terms of other words that you've previously defined. Reducing all the philosophy all of understanding to just linguistic puzzles is a fool's errand. Popper: We can have your theories but don't insist your theories are true.

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