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Episode 357 — "A Brief Word On Sextus Empiricus And The Goal Of Skepticism"

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2. Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18
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2. Episode 286 - TD16 - Confronting Pain With Reason Rather Than With "Virtue" 2
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2. Episode 284 - TD14 - In Dealing With Pain, Does Practice Make Perfect? Or Does Practice Make For A Happy Life? 2
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2. Episode 279 - TD10 - On "Dying Before One's Time" 2
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2. Episode 274 - TD04 - Is The Soul Held Down By The Body, And Does Death Allow The Soul To Ascend To A Better Place? 2
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2. Episode 248 - Cicero's OTNOTG 23 - Cotta Pushes The "Argument By Design" Against The Epicurean View That All - Including Gods - Is Natural 2
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  - September 28, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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2. Episode 210 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 17 - Self-Approval As Pleasure 2
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2. Episode One Hundred Twenty-Five - Letter to Herodotus 14 - Purpose and Method of Studying Nature - Completion of the Letter 2
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2. Episode Eighty-Nine - Unusual Geological Phenomena - Springs That Change From Hot to Cold And Back Again 2
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2. Episode Eighty-Three - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning Part One 2
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2. Episode Seventy-Eight - Ethical Issues Arising In The Formation of Societies 2
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2. Episode Seventy - More On The End of The World 2
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2. Episode Fifty-Nine - The Uses Of The Body Were Not Designed Before They Arose 2
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2. Episode Fifty-Seven - Taste, Smell, and The Subjectivity of the Senses 2
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  - February 5, 2021 at 6:40 PM
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2. Episode Fifty - Opening of Book Four - Beginning the DIscussion of Images 2
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2. Episode Forty-Seven - Death is Nothing To Us 2
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2. Episode Forty-One - The Nature of the Mind and Spirit Is Complex; Sense is Not a Property of The Elements That Make Them, But An Event of Their Combination And Motions 2
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  - October 17, 2020 at 12:00 PM
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2. Episode Thirty-Five - More Reasons Why The Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense 2
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  - August 30, 2020 at 9:27 PM
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2. Episode Twenty-Four: The Swerve Part One: As A Producing Force of Nature 2
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2. Episode Seventeen - All Things Are Not Made of Fire, And Heraclitus Was A Fool 2
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2. Episode Six - Step One: Nothing Comes From Nothing 2
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2. Episode Five - On Resisting The Threats of Priests And Poets 2
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2. Episode 357 - EATAQ39 - A Brief Word On Sextus Empiricus And The Goal of Skepticism 1
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2. Episode 343 - EATAQ25 - In The Search For Knowledge, Is "Probable" Good Enough? 1
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  - July 18, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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2. Episode 342 - EATAQ24 - Were Our Minds Designed To Be Good At Pursuing Knowledge? 1
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  - July 11, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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2. Episode 341 - EATAQ23 - Is It True That No One Dies For A Lie? 1
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  - July 2, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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2. Episode 339 - EATAQ21 - Stoic Views of Knowledge And The Emperor's New Clothes 1
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  - June 20, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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2. Episode 338 - EATAQ20 - Are Knowledge And Wisdom Available Only To Gods? 1
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  - June 12, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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  - June 19, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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2. Episode 337 - EATAQ19 - Confidence In Knowledge And The Epicurean Attitude Toward Pascal's Wager 1
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  - June 6, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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2. Episode 305 - TD33 - Shall We Stoically Be A Spectator To Life And Content Ourselves With "Virtue?" 1
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  - October 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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  - November 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18

Episode 297 - TD25 - Is Philosophy At War With Perfume? 2

Episode 286 - TD16 - Confronting Pain With Reason Rather Than With "Virtue" 2

Episode 284 - TD14 - In Dealing With Pain, Does Practice Make Perfect? Or Does Practice Make For A Happy Life? 2

Episode 279 - TD10 - On "Dying Before One's Time" 2

Episode 274 - TD04 - Is The Soul Held Down By The Body, And Does Death Allow The Soul To Ascend To A Better Place? 2

Episode 248 - Cicero's OTNOTG 23 - Cotta Pushes The "Argument By Design" Against The Epicurean View That All - Including Gods - Is Natural 2

Episode 210 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 17 - Self-Approval As Pleasure 2

Episode One Hundred Twenty-Five - Letter to Herodotus 14 - Purpose and Method of Studying Nature - Completion of the Letter 2

Episode Eighty-Nine - Unusual Geological Phenomena - Springs That Change From Hot to Cold And Back Again 2

Episode Eighty-Three - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning Part One 2

Episode Seventy-Eight - Ethical Issues Arising In The Formation of Societies 2

Episode Seventy - More On The End of The World 2

Episode Fifty-Nine - The Uses Of The Body Were Not Designed Before They Arose 2

Episode Fifty-Seven - Taste, Smell, and The Subjectivity of the Senses 2

Episode Fifty - Opening of Book Four - Beginning the DIscussion of Images 2

Episode Forty-Seven - Death is Nothing To Us 2

Episode Forty-One - The Nature of the Mind and Spirit Is Complex; Sense is Not a Property of The Elements That Make Them, But An Event of Their Combination And Motions 2

Episode Thirty-Five - More Reasons Why The Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense 2

Episode Twenty-Four: The Swerve Part One: As A Producing Force of Nature 2

Episode Seventeen - All Things Are Not Made of Fire, And Heraclitus Was A Fool 2

Episode Six - Step One: Nothing Comes From Nothing 2

Episode Five - On Resisting The Threats of Priests And Poets 2

Episode 357 - EATAQ39 - A Brief Word On Sextus Empiricus And The Goal of Skepticism 1

Episode 343 - EATAQ25 - In The Search For Knowledge, Is "Probable" Good Enough? 1

Episode 342 - EATAQ24 - Were Our Minds Designed To Be Good At Pursuing Knowledge? 1

Episode 341 - EATAQ23 - Is It True That No One Dies For A Lie? 1

Episode 339 - EATAQ21 - Stoic Views of Knowledge And The Emperor's New Clothes 1

Episode 338 - EATAQ20 - Are Knowledge And Wisdom Available Only To Gods? 1

Episode 337 - EATAQ19 - Confidence In Knowledge And The Epicurean Attitude Toward Pascal's Wager 1

Episode 305 - TD33 - Shall We Stoically Be A Spectator To Life And Content Ourselves With "Virtue?" 1

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