Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) Who Said This?
Guess the author: For a wise man … a person’s character is as important as the color of his face in reaching a judgment. See the answer here and here.
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) Who Said This?
Guess the author: ___________ asked what game he was hunting, and the old man replied: “The most dangerous of all beasts: men they are called ….” See the answer here and here.
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(QC RSS) No Manual Needed
being 40 means my pun powers have leveled up
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( Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire ) Comment on Song of the Variable Time Unit, 6/26/20: Sex, Guns, and God by Roderick
The first time watching this I completely missed all the business in the background with the clarinettist. The second time it was all I could see.
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) Song of the Variable Time Unit, 6/26/20: Sex, Guns, and God
Another gem from Postmodern Jukebox:
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(QC RSS) Shared Experience
Do si do
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on a puzzle and a solution regarding the rational ‘ought’ by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Yes, that would do. I think (unjustified) haste is closest to what I had in mind (though, again, fill in as you like to get culpable ignorance — something different could work fine). The key element is that one needed t…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on a puzzle and a solution regarding the rational ‘ought’ by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Actually, the second I wrote that, it occurred to me that there’s a kind of carelessness that comes from being cavalier, and a kind that comes from sheer haste. So maybe you were referring to the latter and referring to…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on a puzzle and a solution regarding the rational ‘ought’ by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to mlyoung57. I guess I’m still a little stuck on your lost phone example. It seems to me that you can do one of two things with this example, and I’m still not sure which of the two you’re doing. (1) You could bake lack of c…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Libertarian Bloggers Are Failing Us by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to sean samis. Am slowly grinding through my reading, so will get to that soon. Another one, worth reading all the way through. In one sense, the story shows that New Jersey is behind the reformist curve (we’re one of five states that d…
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