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Aug 2021
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Ep. 277: Hegel on Our Understanding of P...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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On The Phenomenology of Spirit, ch. 3, "Force and the Understanding."

What is "force" as physics describes it? And scientific law? Do these terms denote objects in the world, or models for how we describe the world?

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