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    1. What Would Epicurus Say To Someone Who Complains "The World Is Unjust / Life Isn't Fair"? 5

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    1. «Embraced (Entangled) Forever and Ever» (Post By Elli At Facebook from Dimitri Liantinis - Excerpt From Gemma) 11

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    1. Episode 247 - Cicero's OTNOTG 22 - Cotta Continues To Attack The Epicurean View That Gods Are Natural Living Beings 9

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    1. How Would Epicurus Analyze The Faulkner Quotation: "Between Grief And Nothing, I'll Take Grief" 4

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    1. Episode 246 - Cicero's OTNOTG 21 - Examining Epicurean Evidence-Based Reasoning 15

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    1. Welcome AcuDoc 6

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    1. Episode 245 - Cicero's OTNOTG 20 - Right, Wrong, Or Incomplete? 10

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    1. What Did the Ancient Epicureans Think Were The Upper And Lower Limits of Atomic Size? 8

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      • The Universe Is Eternal In Space
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    1. Victor Stenger Resources

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    1. Isaac Asimov's Essay "The Relativity of Wrong" (Including Criticism of Socrates And Considering Proper Standards of Correctness) 2

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    1. Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18

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    1. Article By Julia Wildberger - "Happiness despite Mortality: Epicurus' Preparation against Death and Pain in Cic. Tusc. 5.88f" 1

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      • Death Is Nothing To Us - No Immortal Soul
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    1. Episode 243 Cicero's OTNOTG 18 - From "All Sensations Are True" to Reasoning By Similarity And Analogy 9

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    1. David Sedley's "Epicurean Theories of Knowledge 1

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    1. Episode 242 - Cicero's OTNOTG 17 - Is Truth A Matter Of Logic? 11

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    1. Epicurus' Rejection of Dialectic (Cicero's De Oratore) 2

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    1. Referring To The Faculty of Prolepsis / Anticipation As Singular or Plural (And Relating This To Images) 1

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    1. Episode 241 - Cicero's OTNOTG 16 - A Common Thread Between The Epicurean View Of "The Gods" and "The Good" 36

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    1. Episode 240 - Cicero's OTNOTG 15 - The False Allegation That "General Assent" Was The Epicurean Basis For Divinity 7

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    1. Eudoxus of Cnidus - Advocate of Pleasure Prior To Epicurus 6

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    1. Episode 239 - Cicero's OTNOTG 14 - The Dishonesty Of Academic Skepticism vs. Epicurus' Commitment To Truth 7

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