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Radical Unintelligibility, a term coined by Bernard Lonergan, is the philosophical idea that we can act against our better judgment. We can refuse to choose what we know is worth choosing.
Having found a pen, with some difficulty I copied them out in a large handwriting on a double sheet of foolscap so that I could read them." [2] This is the earliest reference to what would become Finnegans Wake. [3] A drawing of Joyce (with eyepatch) by Djuna Barnes from 1922, the year in which Joyce began the 17-year task of writing Finnegans ...
Pascal responds that the probability of that high return is even lower than one in 1000. The mugger argues back that for any low but strictly greater than 0 probability of being able to pay back a large amount of money (or pure utility) there exists a finite amount that makes it rational to take the bet.
Image credits: briannekohl Many of the children surveyed felt that grown-ups need to loosen up. "Have fun and stop working all day and writing emails," suggested one child.
I can’t for the life of me work it out. It’s hardly aimed at academics – a niche literary market that doesn’t tend to warrant extensive and expensive promo and marketing.
Despite much critical praise, there is plenty of controversy surrounding the film.Here's why. 'Emilia Pérez' director Jacques Audiard addresses tweet controversy. In a Q&A with Deadline published ...
In the 18th century, the Marquis de Condorcet was a political scientist who correctly perceived obscurantism as a contributing cause of the French Revolution in 1789.. In restricting education and knowledge to a ruling class, obscurantism is anti-democratic in its components of anti-intellectualism and social elitism, which exclude the majority of the people, deemed unworthy of knowing the ...
Do not dish it if you can't take it; Do not judge a book by its cover; Do not keep a dog and bark yourself; Do not let the bastards grind you down; Do not let the grass grow beneath (one's) feet; Do not look a gift horse in the mouth; Do not make a mountain out of a mole hill; Do not meet troubles half-way; Do not put all your eggs in one basket