Conatus: REVISED EDITION by Tom Wallace - HTML preview

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world, it might be said, is split in multiple ways and it’s the splits in the world that reveal a lot of the more intricate philosophical views that will be discussed going forward. There’s a view that says that the only real numbers are infinity and one — all other numbers, and hence all events and explanations — are just useful (or less useful) constructions. Outside of infinity and The One the world is divided. So let’s ask about where the world first splits.

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