Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Persecution and the Art of Acting” by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “Many conventional (realist) believers take their religious commitments very, very casually.” I’m reminded of a colleague who held the following two positions not frequently combined (and this is in his own …
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(xkcd.com) Antiques Roadshow
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) You don’t get a lot of chances to drag a guy off by the collar like that, so you gotta take advantage
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – Dressed wrong for this conversation
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(QC RSS v2) Bubbles Catches On
Bubbles gets it
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(The GiveWell Blog) July 2026 Updates
Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below! If you’d like to receive the complete…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) I think it’s weird that Slylock enforces laws about both deceptive advertising practices and major felonies
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! Slylock Fox, 8/3/26 I have no idea what the relationship is between Count Weirdly and the little purple…
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(QC RSS v2) Funny Ha Ha
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Provider, Heal Thyself by Like a Surgeon | Policy of Truth
[…] in February 2025, I wrote a post here in which I took issue with the trend among physicians of objecting to the use of the word […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Like a Surgeon
Back in February 2025, I wrote a post here in which I took issue with the trend among physicians of objecting to the use of the word “provider” for physician. Physicians object to that term because they find the “provider” terminology disrespectful and status-diminishing, but my claim was that the objection is itself just an…
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