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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
I significantly re-created from inside
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If we misprepresent reality as we apprehend it as no more than a picture, then the reality as it is in intself of which we take ourselves to have a picture is a conception projected solely by analogy: it must be to reality as we apprehend it as a painting is to a painted landscape. We know what it is to view a real landscape; but a reality that we can never apprehend, because any apprehension of it will neccessarily be no more than a picture, is a phantasm produced by pushing analogy beyond its legitimate limits.
Michael Dummet, Thought and Reality
