Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) I personally am on Team Snert
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! Hagar the Horrible, 6/11/25 I find this strip genuinely funny, and particularly love the expressions on Hagar and…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to John Davenport. I second all that. My agenda in coming to Notre Dame was to press MacIntyre on two issues: foundationalism and rights. The argument over foundationalism foundered over differences in vocabulary and issues of conceptual comme…
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(QC RSS) Musical Chairs
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(xkcd.com) Good Science
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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(Policy of Truth) Valley of the Ghosts
Facebook does this thing where they exhume something you posted on this day, x years ago, just to remind you that you did: “You have memories on this day,” it helpfully intones. Sometimes you want to be reminded, sometimes not, and sometimes you can’t be sure. This one, I guess, falls into the third category.…
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(Cat and Girl) Machines
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Some bleak old people/tech stuff
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! Pluggers, 6/10/25 Pluggers already did a version of this bit in 2007, only back then the joke was…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – I can do cute
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(Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka) An Expansionary Theory of the Noosphere
I’m a big fan of explaining difficult and unintuitive concepts through analogy to even more unintuitive ideas — a technique known to the ancients (and my friend Seth, who first explained it to me), as obscurum per obscurius. Let me apply this device to the greatest tribulation of the current era: the self-evident, ever-increasing polarization…
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(Our World in Data) Announcing new features: better interactive maps
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