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Nov 2014
36m 23s

Episode #041 ... Belief

STEPHEN WEST
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On this episode of the podcast, we discuss the many facets of belief. We start out by discussing two major complications that belief brings to the table. First, absolute certainty is impossible--even certainty about the fact that "certainty is impossible”. Second, we can convince ourselves to believe in literally anything we want (such as the belief that dem ... Show More
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