The Lamp Room
How we know
Questions about knowledge: what counts as evidence, how far reason and experience go, and what we cannot know.
Pascal's wager: a decision argument, not a proof
Pascal's wager explained: the three premises, why each fails, the many-gods objection, and what the argument still teaches about infinite stakes.
"I think, therefore I am": what it proves
Descartes found one thing he couldn't doubt and it proves less than people think. What does it actually mean and how to use it?
Plato's cave explained: what the story says
Prisoners chained in a cave take shadows for the real world. What Plato's story says, what it stands for, and how it sits on our map.
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