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An Introduction to Philosophy (RLL style) Week 04 – Metaphysics 1 (The Nature of Reality) – Part 5: Have you ever eaten a mud pie?

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Physicalism pulls us back to what can be touched, tasted, measured, and tested. No matter how vivid our ideas or dreams, the physical world grounds us in shared reality. Even the strangest discoveries of quantum theory remind us that matter matters, that reality has structure and consequence. Philosophy invites us to balance imagination with embodiment, remembering that wisdom lives where thought meets the world.

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An Introduction to Philosophy (RLL style) Week 03 – Epistemology – Part 5: Who am I kidding?

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Reason can take us far, but experience brings us home. Aristotle reminds us that knowledge doesn’t live only in our heads; it emerges from our engagement with the world itself. Empiricism grounds philosophy in touch, sight, sound, and movement, keeping our thinking honest and connected to reality. Wisdom grows when ideas meet experience.

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