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Episode 349 — "Navigating Questions of Knowledge With Ships And Heaps"

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2. Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18
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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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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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2. Episode Thirty-Five - More Reasons Why The Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense 2
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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 349 - EATAQ31 - Navigating Questions of Knowledge With Ships and Heaps 1
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2. Episode 343 - EATAQ25 - In The Search For Knowledge, Is "Probable" Good Enough? 1
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2. Episode 342 - EATAQ24 - Were Our Minds Designed To Be Good At Pursuing Knowledge? 1
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2. Episode 341 - EATAQ23 - Is It True That No One Dies For A Lie? 1
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2. Episode 339 - EATAQ21 - Stoic Views of Knowledge And The Emperor's New Clothes 1
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2. Episode 338 - EATAQ20 - Are Knowledge And Wisdom Available Only To Gods? 1
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2. Episode 337 - EATAQ19 - Confidence In Knowledge And The Epicurean Attitude Toward Pascal's Wager 1
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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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2. Episode 304 - TD32 - Epicurus vs. The Stoics On Strong Emotions 1
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2. Episode 263 - "All Sensations Are True" 1
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2. Episode 209 - Special Episode - Foundations of Epicurean Philosophy 1
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2. Episode 187 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 39 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, & Revival 02 1
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