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Truth and Emptiness with Jake Orthwein

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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The Characteristic Philosopher's Error

Heidegger makes a similar observation which is that typically we're just involved non-dually in the world in routine activity and it's only in conditions of breakdown that we're forced into this condition of rational reflection right yes. We then retroactively assume that what we were doing in the prior moment was characterized by like rational reasoning or something like that, he says. The characteristic philosopher's error is to takes take the kind of thinking he's doing when he reflects on the action and attribute it to the action  that's amazingYeah yeah okay but then also you've got a you've got to read the Chapman meta rationality book because it's organized around this distinction between what he calls reason

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