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    Descartes: Dynamiting the Foundations of Knowledge
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    Descartes: Dynamiting the Foundations of Knowledge

    Die, foundations, die!
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    4: Accepting Old Answers Again in Each Generation!
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    4: Accepting Old Answers Again in Each Generation!

    Fourth answer!
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    3: Things to Agree On!
    0:59

    3: Things to Agree On!

    Third answer!
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    2: Slow, Real Progress in Subtle Topics
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    2: Slow, Real Progress in Subtle Topics

    Second answer!
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    1: Philosophy Invented Science, Economics, Psychology, and More!
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    1: Philosophy Invented Science, Economics, Psychology, and More!

    First answer.
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    Logic for Homeschoolers Lesson 6: Enthymemes
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    Logic for Homeschoolers Lesson 6: Enthymemes

    FOR homeschoolers, but USEFUL FOR anyone! Sometimes arguments leave out a premise or something. Obama did this, and the results weren't pretty.
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    Descartes: Knowledge of God and the Soul Is the Best Knowledge
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    Descartes: Knowledge of God and the Soul Is the Best Knowledge

    Know them, everyone!
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    Logic for Homeschoolers Lesson 5: Branches of Logic
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    Logic for Homeschoolers Lesson 5: Branches of Logic

    FOR homeschoolers, but USEFUL FOR anyone! There are Deductive and Inductive Logic. Within Deductive Logic, there are also Categorical and Propositional Logic. And there's something called Predicate Logic, but we're not getting into that here.
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    The Preface to Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy
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    The Preface to Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy

    Yeah! Philosophy! Woo hoo!
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    Descartes Has the Best Arguments for God and the Soul!
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    Descartes Has the Best Arguments for God and the Soul!

    Great arguments. The best arguments. Really, really amazing arguments. It's not just him saying that. Lots of people say that. Lots of people. Or maybe it was just Descartes that said that.
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    Logic for Homeschoolers, Lesson 7: Putting Arguments into Standard Form
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    Logic for Homeschoolers, Lesson 7: Putting Arguments into Standard Form

    FOR homeschoolers, but USEFUL FOR anyone! Learn the basics of making arguments orderly--the first step towards testing them.
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    Logic for Homeschoolers: Lesson 4: Characteristics of Arguments
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    Logic for Homeschoolers: Lesson 4: Characteristics of Arguments

    FOR homeschoolers, but USEFUL FOR anyone! Arguments have these characteristics: --valid and sound --valid and unsound; --invalid, unsound, strong, and cogent; --invalid, unsound, strong, and uncogent; --OR invalid, unsound, weak, and uncogent.
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    Descartes' New Ethics of Scientific and Technological Control
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    Descartes' New Ethics of Scientific and Technological Control

    Part VI of the Discourse on Method. This is important stuff!
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    Logic for Homeschoolers: Lesson 3: Recognizing Arguments, Premises, and Conclusions
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    Logic for Homeschoolers: Lesson 3: Recognizing Arguments, Premises, and Conclusions

    FOR homeschoolers, but USEFUL FOR anyone! The place to start is distinguishing our reasons from the things we're giving reasons for.
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    Logic for Homeschoolers: What Even Is Logic?
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    Logic for Homeschoolers: What Even Is Logic?

    FOR homeschoolers, but USEFUL FOR anyone! Logic is the study of arguments to figure out how good they are.
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    Descartes' Plan to Make Humanity the MASTERS AND POSSESSORS OF NATURE!
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    Descartes' Plan to Make Humanity the MASTERS AND POSSESSORS OF NATURE!

    [Maniacal laugh.]
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    Logic for Homeschoolers: Logic Is About Three Things
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    Logic for Homeschoolers: Logic Is About Three Things

    FOR homeschoolers, but USEFUL FOR anyone! 1. We can make statements about different things. 2. Some statements are relevant to the truth of other statements. 3. The relevance takes the form of guaranteeing the other statements, ruling them out, makin them more probable, or making them less probable.
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    Logic for Homeschoolers: Intro to Series
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    Logic for Homeschoolers: Intro to Series

    FOR homeschoolers, but USEFUL FOR anyone!
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    Plato's Symposium: Overview and Retrospect
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    Plato's Symposium: Overview and Retrospect

    What a tragedy! What hilarity! What philosophy! What a book!
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    Putting Together the Discourse on Method: Explaining the Bit that Confused Me for Years
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    Putting Together the Discourse on Method: Explaining the Bit that Confused Me for Years

    A brilliant book, and it does make a lot of sense!
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    Plato's Symposium: The End of the Story
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    Plato's Symposium: The End of the Story

    If you want another name for the Symposium, try this one: The Tragicomedy of Alcibiades!
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    What Happened to Galileo Scared Descartes
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    What Happened to Galileo Scared Descartes

    Yeah, that happened.
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    Plato's Symposium: The Speech of Alcibiades
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    Plato's Symposium: The Speech of Alcibiades

    Philosophy is gay?
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    Plato's Symposium: The Entrance of Alcibiades
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    Plato's Symposium: The Entrance of Alcibiades

    And it's so hilarious! The software selected this facepalm thumbnail, and dang if I ain't using it.
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    Descartes: Soul Is Independent of Body!
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    Descartes: Soul Is Independent of Body!

    "The body cannot live without the mind," said Morpheus. But vice-versa works just fine, says Descartes.
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