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6 Famous Thought Experiments Explained in 1 Minute Each. Einstein once said, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

6 Famous Thought Experiments Explained in 1 Minute Each

The ... Einstein once said, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” Instant Grammar Check - Plagiarism Checker - Online Proofreader. 8 Great Philosophical Questions That We'll Never Solve. 10 Mind-Blowing Theories That Will Change Your Perception of the World. Reality is not as obvious and simple as we like to think.

10 Mind-Blowing Theories That Will Change Your Perception of the World

Some of the things that we accept as true at face value are notoriously wrong. Scientists and philosophers have made every effort to change our common perceptions of it. The 10 examples below will show you what I mean. 1. Great glaciation. 10 Mind-Blowing Theories That Will Change Your Perception of the World. Part 1 of Episode 1: “The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living.” Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:11 — 38.6MB) Discussing Plato’s “Apology.”

Part 1 of Episode 1: “The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living.”

This reading is all about how Socrates is on trial for acting like an ass and proceeds to act like an ass and so is convicted. Big surprise. On this our inaugural discussion, Mark, Seth, and Wes talk about how philosophers are arrogant bastards who neglect their children, how people of all political stripes don’t usually examine their fundamental beliefs (but probably should), why it might be better to know you know nothing than to only think that you know nothing, and how Plato was a super genius all of whose texts you should worship uncritically.

Plus: podcaster philosophical origin stories, like when Wes was bitten by a radioactive Anaxagoras.