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“[A]usterity-loving pundits and policy makers really are like medieval doctors who believed in treating illness by bleeding their patients, making the...”
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“Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of...”
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“[I]t is not particularly difficuly to move towards a solution the problem raised by Hume, which Kant believed he had solved. The belief in the...”
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Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
The sea is calm tonight,
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
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I am twenty-nine, pocket flap folded
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And I am smiling I am looking out at a world that
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Which depends on which—the semantics on the metaphysics or the metaphysics on the semantics? Do we first have to make up our minds on the metaphysical question, and then shape our semantics on accordance with the answer? This is the strategy that philosophers have frequently followed; but it is a misguided one.
Michael Dummett, Thought and Reality
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