Philosophiraga: Episode Twelve – Ontology 101

“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”

– Niels Bohr

How do, folks!

Welcome back to Philosophiraga, the show where the phil is osophy and the osophi is raga. Or something.

So, y’know, what’s even real anyway, dude? Like, does the world even exist, yo?

These, albeit perhaps not phrased in quite the same way, are big questions in philosophy, and this episode is an introduction to ontology: the study of being and existence. We talk Saints Row IV and the possibility that we might all be in a cave, or a simulation, or some sort of demonic trick.

Stay tuned for the rest of the module on ontology, in which we’ll explore some theories about what there might be (or indeed not be) and what it might be like (or indeed not be like).

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