Sleep Story 238 – The Problems of Philosophy
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The Search for Certainty in the World
Philosophy is the attempt to answer such ultimate questions, not carelessly and dogmatically as we do an ordinary life. In daily life many things which on a closer scrutiny are found to be so full of apparent contradictions that only a great amount of thought enables us to know what it is that we really may believe. It seems to me that I am now sitting in a chair at a table of certain shape, on which I see sheets of paper with writing or print. I believe that the sun is about 93 million miles from the earth, that it is a hot globe many times bigger than the earth,. That owing to the earth's rotation, it arises every morning, and will continue to
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