Love of wisdom The most general definition of philosophy is ‘the most general and comprehensive type of inquiry’. What is inquiry? Let’s say, ‘the attempt to say what is true and why’; which is to say ‘what is true, must be justified by reasons and/or evidence’. Philosophy leaves nothing out, except for the particulars that […]
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Here is a short essay by Zeynep Direk on some concepts from Simone De Beaviour, please feel free to comment on it here.
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‘Deconstruction is not demolition, but rather de-sedimentation‘ Boom! Derrida meets Wittgenstein! Anything that has been constructed can be deconstructed and therefore reassembled and transformed, Deconstruction merely destabilises and adds plasticity to what appears fixed
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I have had the pleasure of experiencing psilocybin a few times throughout my life. One of the most perplexing aspects is the communal nature of the experience. Psilocybin starts to take effect in a communal way through infectious yawns – yawning is communal and public, if one person yawns, the other will too. Later in […]
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I live in the UK, which is a sort of socialist/capitalist mix, but over recent years, it has started to become more and more capitalist. Work As a child and in my teens, my father and the rest of my family for that matter, would drill the capitalist work ethic into me. I was taught […]
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Sentences have propositions in them but sentences are not identical to propositions. If I say ‘the bottle is on the table’ that is a sentence with a proposition, which can be said in another language, or in a different way – ‘the table is positioned underneath a bottle’. Possible worlds are full of propositions, but propositions […]
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Generally, we explain phenomena as being a ’cause and effect’ system where correlations imply causation. What other alternatives are there to this model? Here are a few I have been exploring recently: Constraint and limitation Response Reaction Emergence Are you aware of any others?
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