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Episode 2: Descartes’s Meditations: What Can We Know?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Does It Matter?

i think descartes treats it as a sort of means to an end to get everything back. But maybe it's just the end. In other words, it doesn't matter if i'm hooked up like the matrix or brain in the vad,. You know, i on ma say, why the real o? What we even want to say is, you know, maybe that'sn't even an incoherent idea, and that common sense certainty. Well, you're right, we should have that certainty, because it's indistinguishable from just being certain of the perception itself. I not sayng i lat i don't want us to entertain that sure. It might be the case that

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