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    2. Episode Ninety-Five - Understanding The Paradoxical "Absence of Pain" 20

      • Cassius
      • November 5, 2021 at 9:35 PM
      • Cassius
      • November 13, 2021 at 6:29 PM
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    4. Cassius

      November 13, 2021 at 6:29 PM

    2. Episode Ninety-Eight - The Epicurean View of Justice (Part One) 15

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      • November 26, 2021 at 1:51 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 16, 2021 at 11:50 AM
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    4. Kalosyni

      December 16, 2021 at 11:50 AM

    2. Episode Ninety - Recap Of Atomism In Preparation for Details of Magnetism 17

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      • September 23, 2021 at 9:54 AM
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      • September 28, 2021 at 7:50 PM
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    4. Cassius

      September 28, 2021 at 7:50 PM

    2. Episode Nineteen - All Things Are Not Made of Tiny Pieces of The Same Thing, Or Of All Things (Anaxagorus' Homoeomery) 4

      • Cassius
      • July 27, 2021 at 7:40 AM
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      July 27, 2021 at 7:40 AM

    2. Episode Nine - The Evidence That Atoms Exist, Even Though They Are Unseen 7

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      • October 19, 2021 at 2:35 PM
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      October 19, 2021 at 2:35 PM

    2. Episode Fourteen - Atoms Are Solid And Indestructible, and Constitute the Seeds of All Things. 6

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      • April 28, 2020 at 5:06 PM
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    4. Don

      April 28, 2020 at 5:06 PM

    2. Episode Four - Recap of Opening Sections of Book One 12

      • Cassius
      • January 26, 2020 at 8:53 AM
      • Cassius
      • July 20, 2021 at 10:01 AM
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    4. Paquin

      July 20, 2021 at 10:01 AM

    2. Episode Forty-Two - The Mind works through the senses; it is a relatively small part of the body; the Mind has more power than the "spirit," but both mind and spirit are mortal 1

      • Cassius
      • October 24, 2020 at 2:48 PM
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      • October 30, 2020 at 9:53 PM
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      October 30, 2020 at 9:53 PM

    2. Episode Forty-Three - The Mind is Born, Grows Old, and Dies With the Body 1

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      • October 30, 2020 at 10:12 PM
      • Cassius
      • November 7, 2020 at 9:55 AM
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      November 7, 2020 at 9:55 AM

    2. Episode Forty-Six - Conclusion of the Argument That the Mind and Soul Cannot Survive Death 1

      • Cassius
      • November 21, 2020 at 12:06 PM
      • Cassius
      • November 28, 2020 at 7:32 PM
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      November 28, 2020 at 7:32 PM

    2. Episode Forty-Seven - Death is Nothing To Us 2

      • Cassius
      • November 26, 2020 at 5:58 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 9, 2020 at 6:24 AM
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    4. Cassius

      December 9, 2020 at 6:24 AM

    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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      • October 25, 2020 at 1:44 PM
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    4. Cassius

      October 25, 2020 at 1:44 PM

    2. Episode Forty-Nine - The End of Book Three 4

      • Cassius
      • December 11, 2020 at 10:09 PM
      • Cassius
      • December 22, 2020 at 4:56 PM
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    4. Don

      December 22, 2020 at 4:56 PM

    2. Episode Forty-Four - The Mind Cannot Continue to Exist Separately From The Body After Death 1

      • Cassius
      • November 7, 2020 at 11:02 AM
      • Cassius
      • November 13, 2020 at 8:02 PM
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    4. Cassius

      November 13, 2020 at 8:02 PM

    2. Episode Forty-Five - Further Arguments For the Mortality of the Soul 1

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      • November 13, 2020 at 8:05 PM
      • Cassius
      • November 20, 2020 at 8:25 PM
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      November 20, 2020 at 8:25 PM

    2. Episode Forty-Eight - Nature Speaks To Us About Death 1

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      • December 5, 2020 at 9:19 AM
      • Cassius
      • December 11, 2020 at 9:07 PM
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      December 11, 2020 at 9:07 PM

    2. Episode Forty - The Mind and Spirit Are Bodily, Composed of Very Fine Atoms 7

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      • October 8, 2020 at 7:27 PM
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      • October 18, 2020 at 4:08 PM
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    4. Cassius

      October 18, 2020 at 4:08 PM

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

      • Cassius
      • February 3, 2020 at 8:14 PM
      • Cassius
      • February 14, 2020 at 6:52 PM
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    4. Cassius

      February 14, 2020 at 6:52 PM

    2. Episode Fifty-Two - More on Light, Vision, and Reflections 1

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      • January 2, 2021 at 11:59 AM
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      • January 10, 2021 at 8:36 PM
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      January 10, 2021 at 8:36 PM

    2. Episode Fifty-Three - The Senses Are Never Deceived, Even By Illusions 1

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      • January 9, 2021 at 8:48 AM
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      • January 16, 2021 at 6:44 PM
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    2. Episode Fifty-Six - More On The Operation of the Senses - Hearing And Taste 1

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      • January 25, 2021 at 4:58 PM
      • Cassius
      • February 6, 2021 at 6:39 PM
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      February 6, 2021 at 6:39 PM

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

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      • February 5, 2021 at 6:40 PM
      • Cassius
      • February 13, 2021 at 12:00 PM
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    4. Don

      February 13, 2021 at 12:00 PM

    2. Episode Fifty-One - The Workings of Images 17

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      • December 24, 2020 at 2:09 PM
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      • January 6, 2021 at 2:17 PM
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      January 6, 2021 at 2:17 PM

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

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      • February 19, 2021 at 10:26 AM
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      • March 3, 2021 at 8:05 AM
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      March 3, 2021 at 8:05 AM

    2. Episode Fifty-Four: Reason Is Dependent On The Senses 3

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      • January 16, 2021 at 8:01 AM
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      • January 17, 2021 at 1:05 PM
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      January 17, 2021 at 1:05 PM

    2. Episode Fifty-Five - Reason Is Dependent On The Senses (Part 2) 56

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      • January 23, 2021 at 10:38 AM
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      February 8, 2021 at 7:50 AM

    2. Episode Fifty-Eight - The Mind's Direct Receipt of Images 24

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      • February 13, 2021 at 10:07 AM
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    2. Episode Fifty - Opening of Book Four - Beginning the DIscussion of Images 2

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      • December 18, 2020 at 8:20 PM
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      • December 27, 2020 at 12:38 PM
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    2. Episode Fifteen - Recap Two 1

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      • April 26, 2020 at 4:39 PM
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    2. Episode Eleven - More On The Void And Its Implications 4

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      • March 17, 2020 at 6:42 AM
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      • March 28, 2020 at 2:20 PM
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      March 28, 2020 at 2:20 PM

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