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Episode Synopsis
EN:What is the world made of? In this episode we dive deep into the history of what philosophers call “ontology”, the study of being or. more colloquially, of what is there in reality. Starting in Ancient Greece with the pre-socratics, we explore how the very transitional nature of what we know exists tells us about how science works, and it’s deep dependence on what we can know of the world.PT:Do que é feito o mundo? Neste episódio, mergulhamos fundo na história do que os filósofos chamam de "ontologia", o estudo do ser ou, mais coloquialmente, do que existe na realidade. Começando na Grécia Antiga com os pré-socráticos, exploramos como a própria natureza transitória do que sabemos que existe nos diz como a ciência funciona e sua profunda dependência do que podemos saber sobre o mundo.
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