Episode 249: Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic")
Very Bad Wizards
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Is There Value in the Object?
I find it hard to hold a view that there is value in the object. I think that's maybe just because of hundreds of years of thinking and maybe this is what psychology one of the central things psychology has been interested in is how different perceptions can arise from the same exact situation. So we just individual differences which Hume goes on to talk about quite a bit like some people are more anxious and so something is going to make them more afraid. It's not that the thing possesses fearsomeness it's that people respond to it, says David Attenborough.
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