Seth Paskin
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1,271 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Seth Paskin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Scholastic idealist, right?
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Yeah, I mean I think that just amounts to saying that you understand what he means by determined by previous cogni determined by his answer to the question.
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Mean this amounts to saying that we don't think without having highly refined cognitions already.
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There's no thinking that happens about bare information that then gets assembled into actual ideas.
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It's all we're already highly refined.
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into this is the myth of the given, da da da that we have cognitions that we're working with.
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And those cognitions get get refined.
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This goes to the triangle example.
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Yeah.
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And part of the reason that that is, I think, successful from his point of view is that.
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That the inferences all the way down, that is not problematic because that's not the end where the truth thing is, right?
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The truth thing is the end point of sequences of inferences.
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So you're going towards the truth.
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You're not going back to get to the truth.
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You're not uncovering and plowing away all the distractions, all the false things.
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That you you think and trying to distill down to the nugget of truth, right?
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You're always going forward in your inferences to get to what the true thing is.
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And so the fact that you can keep going back, and there's the start doesn't matter in this case.
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The start doesn't matter about the inferences.
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Yeah, and the sequence matters, and but and where you get to is what matters.
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