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Ep. 17 - Oxford Analysis | Interview Breakdown

Patterson in Pursuit
Patterson in Pursuit
Episode • Jul 31, 2016 • 37m

What is logic? Can something be true and false at the same time? Can we ever have perfect certainty? Those are some of the epistemological questions I asked the philosopher Dr. Timothy Williamson of Oxford University.

We also dove into the metaphysics of concepts and mathematics - and here we had the greatest disagreement. Do concepts have any existence outside of our conception of them? He says yes, I say no, and the consequences are very large.



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