Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on I Think They Call This Fascism by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Michael Young. The claim that “racism” lacks public descriptive content just seems to me a reductio. Wikipedia gives a perfectly good definition: Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral trai…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) The drool-blob is genuinely upsetting
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Blondie, 3/15/25 You gotta imagine that, when you’re talking to Dagwood Bumstead, there’s always a danger that he’s…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part III: What Catapults?
This is the third part of our [I, II, I don’t know, a few more?] part series looking at Rings of Power‘s Siege of Eregion from a military history perspective. Last week, we discussed the remarkably bad siege preparation of both sides: Adar’s complete lack of a fortified siege camp and Eregion’s complete lack of…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on I Think They Call This Fascism by Michael Young
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I’m not a linguist, but it does seem that pejorative function (as a matter of use/meaning) can overtake cognitive function, rendering a term cognitively defective in a particular way. Does ‘asshole’ have muc…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Irrational Friday
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Six Chix, 3/14/25 Happy Pi Day, everybody! Today, 3/14, is used as a tongue-in-cheek opportunity to celebrate pi,…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on You Can’t Burn Down Neapolis by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Roderick T. Long. By the way, there’s still an offending O in “you can’t create the right sort of neopolis from within the assumptions ….” I reckon you’re hungry, and the A looks like just one slice of pizza, w…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on You Can’t Burn Down Neapolis by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Is Sciabarra a round pizza? Seems to entail Sciabarra. I dunno, man, I thought he kinda favoured the square Sicilian pizza. But in honour of Nablus and Naples I reckon the round Neapolitan pizza should take precedence here…
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(QC RSS) Hipster Comedy
girl ain’t got no butt
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on You Can’t Burn Down Neapolis by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Thanks. Resolution of the mystery: I got it right when I first wrote the post, but glancing at it on the train the next morning, was somehow convinced that it “looked wrong,” hurriedly miscorrected it, and then…
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