Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Vote Like It Matters by Roderick T. Long
I think we have an imperfect duty to contribute to public goods. Since the duty is imperfect, we can pick the occasions as we prefer. So there’s no duty to vote, but voting is one possible way of satisfying a duty, and so is not per se irration…
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(QC RSS) New Fetish Unlocked
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(xkcd.com) University Commas
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Policy of Truth) Vote Like It Matters
It’s become a cliché of philosophical commentary on the ethics of voting that voting is prima facie irrational. If you vote as an individual, your vote represents a mere 1/n of the totality of the election, where n represents the total number of voters in the election. If we consider, say, national elections in the…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Sunday is for lore
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! Judge Parker, 10/6/24 You might recall my earlier irritation that both Sophie and Neddy were involved in family…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) We all want to do this when our computers make us mad, honestly
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! The Phantom, 10/5/24 One of the more, uh, problematic aspects of the Phantom lore is that the Phantoms…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Friday is for the elderly
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! Mary Worth, 10/4/24 Look, Stell, you’re clearly a vibrant, attractive woman with an active romantic and sexual life.…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Arrested Princeton Students’ Statement on Court Appearance by Irfan Khawaja
I just noticed that the formatting is appreciably worse on a cell phone than on a laptop. It looked OK on my laptop. Will try to fix that tomorrow, probably re-post it. LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Arrested Princeton Students’ Statement on Court Appearance by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. Maybe this weekend, don’t have time to mess with it now. Formatting is always an issue when you lift something out of an email and plop it into WordPress. Just wanted to get it out there for now, format it later. Al…
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