danielam

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by danielam 8y ago
I'd add Polish manors (the dwór or dworek) to the list. Manors of a wide ranging breadth, spanning centuries and architectural styles, from quaint country estates to stately palaces.
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The Great Books: Enemies of Wisdom (1987) [pdf](isistatic.org)
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by danielam 8y ago
Moral agency entails more than understanding (predicting outcomes is also not sufficient for moral understanding). It also requires that the agent is capable of acting voluntarily. Whether an agent has rights also depends on his (in princip
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The metaphysics of swapping brains, bodies and minds(edwardfeser.blogspot.com)
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The Redistribution of Sex(mobile.nytimes.com)
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Three sided football(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Origins of “Artificial Intelligence”(rodneybrooks.com)
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Jamestown Polish craftsmen and the 1619 strike(en.wikipedia.org)
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Marshall McLuhan – The Man, the Mystery, the Life (2011)(fs.blog)
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Its Reputation and Its Odor Precede It (2003)(nytimes.com)
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Laurentius Goslicius(en.wikipedia.org)
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by danielam 8y ago
I usually don't like phrases like "Europe's Silicon Valley" or "Venice of the North". As much as they can be informative in some respects, such comparisons obscure and brush over the specificities of the things
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Gödel and the unreality of time(edwardfeser.blogspot.com)
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Constitution of 3 May 1791(en.wikipedia.org)
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Privacy(plato.stanford.edu)
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Software framework for explanatory modeling of big data(cs.put.poznan.pl)
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Poland's surprisingly beautiful cheese(bbc.com)
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70 Years Since the Marshall Plan (2017)(geopoliticalfutures.com)
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Japan found hundreds of years’ worth of the minerals used in batteries and EVs(wsj.com)
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The Medium Is the Message (Chapter 1 of “Understanding Media”) (1964) [pdf](web.mit.edu)
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Media Imperialism(en.wikipedia.org)
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by danielam 9y ago
I'm glad you brought this up. The so-called existential Thomists are strong on this point. Frederick Wilhelmsen's "The Paradoxical Structure of Existence" [0] was my first encounter with this understanding of God. I stro
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The hidden healing power of sugar(bbc.com)
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by danielam 9y ago
The Cartesian metaphysical tradition has had an enormous impact on our thinking to this today, often without us realizing it. Materialism itself, which opposes the dualism of Descartes, only makes sense within the Cartesian paradigm. Far fr
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by danielam 9y ago
Worth noting is that Aristotle locates the source of Zeno's paradoxes in the failure to distinguish between actuality and potentiality. Achilles does not need to actually cover an infinite number of lengths. A finite length is not a
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by danielam 9y ago
I once came across a curious anthropological account of the importance of fire is a section in Feliks Koneczny's book "On the Plurality of Civilizations"[0] written in the 1930s. (The OCR or transcription isn't great, bu
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by danielam 9y ago
It's very difficult to be charitable toward this kind of philosophical dabbling. The most glaring absurdity is the performative contradiction of appealing to evolution and quantum mechanics to prove that the world is an illusion. If &q
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by danielam 9y ago
> Kant already made it clear that our experience of the world by definition is something different from the world in itself. He didn't make it "clear" if by "clear" you mean he demonstrated this to be true. Why p
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Hilary Putnam and the mind of Aristotle (2016)(blog.oup.com)
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The Bidet's Revival(theatlantic.com)
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