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Ep. 285: Nicolas Malebranche on Knowledge (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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I don't think that light is allowed to be in substance. Maybe there's some corpuscular thing. A physicalist theory of light is what starts all of this off. atomism, by lucretius, atomism and thinking of light as particles hitting the eyes,. That is like the beginning of what we know of as modern philosophy with its epistemological concerns.

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