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In philosophy, Wittgenstein's ladder is a metaphor set out by Ludwig Wittgenstein about learning. In what may be a deliberate reference to Søren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, [1] [2] the penultimate proposition of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (translated from the original German) reads: [3]
In comedy, a throwaway line (also: throwaway joke or throwaway gag) is a joke delivered "in passing" without being the punch line to a comedy routine, part of the build up to another joke, or (in the context of drama) there to advance a story or develop a character.
Throw-away society, a human society strongly influenced by consumerism "Thrown Away, a short story by Rudyard Kipling This page was last edited on 16 June ...
The Tennis Channel has taken an analyst off air indefinitely after he made a disparaging remark about Wimbledon champion ... Daughter admits she used to throw plates away rather than clean them up ...
A college student has revealed a hilarious secret from her teenage years to her parents. The young woman, named Sam, shared a video on TikTok on Tuesday, Dec. 10, in which she and her parents took ...
A United States Army soldier greeting Iraqi children while on patrol during the occupation of Iraq in 2009. Winning hearts and minds is a concept occasionally expressed in the resolution of war, insurgency, and other conflicts, in which one side seeks to prevail not by the use of superior force, but by making emotional or intellectual appeals to sway supporters of the other side.
“So far the magic number is 25% off. Consumers are looking for better and aren’t showing a sense of urgency,” said Marshal Cohen, chief retail industry analyst with market research firm Circana.
Throwaway Kids was a two-part investigative report airing on the ABC News television series 20/20 in 1981.. The report followed a nine-month undercover investigation by producers Karen Burnes and Bill Lichtenstein.