Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

That certainly answers my question, but fails to respond to the sense of curmudgeonly irritation that prompted it. LikeLiked by 1 person

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. No, I guess it is real: Fun Facts about the name Genu When was the first name Genu first recorded in the United States? The oldest recorded birth by the Social Security Administration for the name Genu is Sunday, September 23…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I thought I’d run across ‘Genu’ before, but a quick search revealed zip. So I guess I just made that up. LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. https://www.seattlepi.com/comics-and-games/?page=todays-comic&feature_id=Zippy_the_Pinhead LikeLike

Dude, where do you get these names from? “Genu”? “Zippy”? “Pinhead”? What punishment do you deserve for that? LikeLiked by 1 person

For energy security and progress on climate change we need open data on energy. The funders of the IEA can make this happen.

There is a point about desert that Fred Feldman and Brad Skow get wrong in their SEP entry on desert. They distinguish between desert and entitlement (their terms; other terms would be ‘pre-institutional desert’ and ‘institutional desert’). There should be a threefold distinction here, not a twofold distinction. If a convention or institution specifies that,…

In reply to County Clerk Mary Melfi. For one thing, I don’t think Plato said that. For another, I don’t think any republic could actually function on that premise. What I find interesting is that your comment reveals that even the best of t…