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268 - Christopher Mastropietro - Into A New World

The Symbolic World

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Is It Possible to Take That Away From You?

When we make contact with something that is real in virtue of the contact itself, I don't think there's any amount of debate that can necessarily uproot it. And once people have gone through that training, what are you gonna, how are you gonna take that? Like, how are those philosophy professors going to take that away from them?I don't think it's possible anymore. It feels impossible because what you're talking about is the re-introduction of a kind of contact epistemology. By definition, like in virtue of its very nature, it can't be unwound by any kind of propositional response. That's why they're so viscerally unsatisfying after

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