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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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What [Wittgenstein] is trying to get us to see is that the act of looking inwards, which we are tempted to think is vital to our understanding of the word ‘pain’, is in fact idle in respect of either achieving or displaying mastery of this concept. What matters for mastery of our concept of pain is an ability to use the relevant expression in accordance with our ordinary practice.
Marie McGinn, Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations, p138
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