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In this last regard, Dennett’s role is succinctly expressed: from an esoteric perspective I will suggest this: Daniel Dennett is the Devil. This theme will be elaborated at length in the final sections of the paper, but it is worth bearing in mind throughout.
the on cinema at the cinema 7th oscar special dinner
that picture of daniel craig where he looks like a bureaucrat in the EU
Empirical research reveals that breast milk is a dynamic, responsive interface:
The cycle meme format, where circular arrows indicate four stages which eternally repeat in sequence. The first is "Sad December", the second is "My heart is luminous and shines through my shirt", the third is "The World Is One Big Organism And I Am A Tooth", and the fourth is "To see the world as redeemed is to know that it has never stood in need of redemption".
Figure 2: Reason's "Family Heirarchy" in Kant's Critical System (the figure is a triangle, where the points are "older brother (practical reason)", "younger brother (theoretical reason)", and "father (judgement)". the lines of the triangle are arrows, with older brother and younger brother both pointing to one another and father, while father points at none.
a text from my mom that reads "virtue ethics is deceptive. it is more complex than it appears."
For philosophical issues around ‘woman’ see Sally Haslanger, ‘The sex/ gender distinction and the social construction of reality’ in the Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 2017): 157–167, edited by Ann Garry, Serene Khader, and Alison Stone.
women? And what about the currently influential idea that to be a woman is just to be willing to apply the term ‘woman’ to oneself? There is no easy answer to the question what concept or concepts the word ‘woman’ now expresses. As for the future use of the word, any proposal is explosive. For consider a biological male who identifies as a woman: if the proposal implies that we should call that person a ‘woman’, it will enrage many people, and if it implies that we should not call that person a ‘woman’, it will enrage many other people. The very idea of someone in authority telling ordinary people how they ought to use ordinary words like ‘woman’ is controversial too. Well-meaning professors tend to imagine linguistic reform being led by people like themselves, but in practice a trend towards redefining terms may favour more sinister causes—for instance, when ‘torture’ is redefined to exclude waterboarding. Politically, people habituated to going along with linguistic reforms are easier to manipulate.
A chart which parses four states of affairs into four outcomes. In each of these states of affairs, god exists. In the first one, god is good, and you worship that god: the outcome is eternal bliss. In the second one, god is good, and you don't worship that god: the outcome is eternal bliss. In the third one, god is evil, and you worship that god: the outcome is complicated. In the fourth and final situation, god is evil, and you don't worship that god: the outcome is hell/annihilation.
6.1: The return of Pagliacci Pagliacci has seen much in his long life of clownery.
"from □□P, but □□□P conveys the same semantic norm as □□P. □□□P is still just demonstrating how to demonstrate, except it takes a demonstration of demonstrating as its object demonstration. The rules regarding demonstration do not change when the thing we are demonstrating is how to demonstrate, as opposed to when the thing we are demonstrating is how to demonstrate that we demonstrate. A good demonstration is a good demonstration. There might"
footnote of the awful amicus brief that i keep posting about, it reads "Of course, such a metaphorical use of “gerrymandered” is intended without prejudice to the actual electoral practice of gerrymandering."
birthday card, depicting 9 cigarettes, with the text "HAVE A SMOKING BIRTHDAY" in the bottom right corner.
phone screenshot of a google image search for "old man eating paint" with the music video to the ghostbusters theme playing in a smaller, picture-in-picture format 2/3rds of the way down the screen.
basic idea is this: My belief is justified just in case I have done my epistemic bit – the rest, as it were, is up to fate. My belief will qualify as knowledge provided that the world obliges or cooperates – but I am not required to do anything further. The
contextualist-cum-relevant alternatives
google calendar event from 10am-4:30pm called "the happening," with an overlapping google calendar event at 11:45 titled "lunch (soylent)," which, and this is not obvious from the image, is 2 minutes long.
"By decree of the angels and by the command of the holy men, we excommunicate, expel, curse and damn Baruch de Espinoza, with the consent of God, Blessed be He, and with the consent of the entire holy congregation, and in front of these holy scrolls with the 613 precepts which are written therein; cursing him with the excommunication with which Joshua banned Jericho and with the curse which Elisha cursed the boys and with all the castigations which are written in the Book of the Law. Cursed be he by day and cursed be he by night; cursed be he when he lies down and cursed be he when he rises up. Cursed be he when he goes out and cursed be he when he comes in. The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law. But you that cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day."
ornithologist-cum-logician
the panel of dungeon meshi where the winged lion's head is sticking out of a book at a dinner table with an array of Sullen Beings sitting around him. it has been edited to change the original text in his speech bubble to a screenshot of the above post, which reads "world's #1 fan of desire. got the foam finger and everything."
Mysterious diagram with lines, sometimes dates, and sometimes "(JC)" or "(Julius Caesar)" as a label. It is from a metaphysics book.
email subject line that reads "Sufjan Stevens made you something special"
Why Aren’t I Part of a Whale? David Builes and Caspar Hare. Forthcoming in Analysis
a diagram from a mark wilson paper. the first part, which is labelled "acceptable initial condition" shows a backhoe with a bunch of arrows designating the degrees of freedom different components of the machine have in a mathematical physics model. the second part, which is labelled "unacceptable initial condition," has the backhoe split into parts and scattered about the image. the vibes are chaotic, and the image illicits the kind of simple unease that one gets when looking at the special effects of post-2002 david lynch project. it also is awkwardly funny due to the elision of nearly all context, much like a heathcliff comic.
a picture of GOB, a character from the show Arrested Development (who is played by Will Arnett). beneath him it says "G.O.B, George Oscar Bluth II, Magician (part-time)"
a screenshot from the show Revolutionary Girl Utena. Anthy whispers to Utena, "But you can never be my prince. Because you're a girl."
Footnote reading: "Sylvan's box is a short story which describes an impossible box that simultaneously does and does not contain an object (Priest, 1997b). A better known example of an impossible fiction is The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. After all, a man can't become a bug."
Crumpacker Brothers Frederick, Maurice & Owen 🌷 ~ALCOVE~
"To understand why taking the initiative is so important, it’s best to read military grand strategists like Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, Martin van Creveld, B.H. Liddell Hart and John Boyd. I find it insane that it’s now possible to graduate from a four-year college without having read any of these thinkers. Such students emerge unprepared for a frequently adversarial world."
A quote from Soren Kierkegaard reading: "I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself."
sonic the hedgehog in the form of a container for onion rings at the sonic the hedgehog restaurant (which serves onion rings)
"Who because they neither know their sources nor the sills of their disappointments walk outside their bodies aimlessly, for the most part, locked and forgot in their desires—unroused."
tweet that reads: "Prediction: AI will displace social drinking within 5 years Just as alcohol is a social disinhibitor, like the Steve Martin movie Roxanne, people will use AI powered earbuds to help them socialize. At first we'll view it as creepy, but it will quickly become superior to alcohol"
the third impact