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Contemplates philosophy of language further and tries to clarify the relationship between existentialist and pragmatic theories of language by contemplating Wittgenstein’s Rule Following Paradox.  

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What is free will? Is it real or simply a useful fiction for justifying the execution and punishment inflicted by the ethics and law of the powers-that-be? Basics of the metaphysics and ontology branch of philosophy.  Metaphysics is the study of first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, … Continue reading "#71: Free Will"

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What is time and space? Are they real or simply attributes or wordgames in our perceptions and language about reality? Basics of the metaphysics and ontology branch of philosophy.  Metaphysics is the study of first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. Ontology is the study … Continue reading "#70: Time and Space"

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Basics of the metaphysics and ontology branch of philosophy.  Metaphysics is the study of first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. Ontology is the study of being. This episode contemplates ontology as having separated from metaphysics and having become existentialist reasoning and thought capable of … Continue reading "#69: Ontology"

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Basics of the metaphysics branch of modern philosophy.  Metaphysics is the study of first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space.  Modern metaphysics in this episode is contemplated as a language game in modern philosophy of language.  

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Basics of the metaphysics branch of philosophy.  Metaphysics is the study of first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. The emphasis in this episode is on modern metaphysics as a language game in the philosophy of language.  

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Basics of classical metaphysics and ontology as a subset of metaphysics.  Metaphysics is the study of first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. This contemplation is for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective varying from ancient pre-Socratic to modern philosophies and … Continue reading "#66: Ontology and Metaphysics"

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Basics of the metaphysics branch of philosophy.  Metaphysics is the study of first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space. Philosophers and theologians will be discussing basic history, problems, and issues in philosophy and metaphysics for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective … Continue reading "#65: Introduction to Metaphysics"

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Basics of the epistemology branch of philosophy. Epistemology is the study of knowledge and justified true belief. Philosophers and theologians will be discussing basic history, problems, and issues in philosophy and epistemology for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective varying from ancient pre-Socratic to modern philosophies and theologies of language, science, … Continue reading "#64: Introduction to Epistemology"

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Basics of philosophy of science. Definitions and implications of science  for a modern non-academic audience and from a working class perspective. The emphasis in this episode is the status of science as a modern demigod and secular religion and its future as such.  Contemplation of what secular religion may replace science once its present adherents … Continue reading "#63: Science and its Future as Religion"

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