
Episode 8: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About?
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Importance of Causality in Science
Hume creates problems even for science, and I think that's what Conop thought, because Hume debunks even causality. He didn't think Hume saw the full implications of his skepticism; he thought it would destroy science as well as metaphysics. And so Conop wants to get back causality, and he wants to save physics, for instance, and other things. That is a no way shape or form necessary. It's just your blind faith based on what has happened in the past.
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