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A stable reference is not necessary for meaning.
If ancient poems have no current similar meanings to use for construction or deconstruction, we all yet understand them as communications. Even over the years, and spaces.
Sometimes their meanings multiply.
#Poetry #Philosophy

I have the priviledge of taking a whole semester for my research this fall, and intend to blog / think out loud as I work my way through #Pedagogy, #Philosophy, #Art,

If you're a tourist looking for Germany in India (for food, customs, etc.), really the best place to find Germany is Germany.
aka "Stop looking for your country in another."
PS: applies to any pair of countries; two countries named only for ease of writing.
#advice #travel #philosophy

“You see, that’s how modern physics works: first we deny the existence of something, then we explain where it came from.”
—Sabine Hossenfelder
She’s the best. She was explaining time. But she could have been talking about any other basis for physics or math.
#Science #Philosophy

I believe a philosophy that can be called wide-ass. Everyone contributes their thoughts, and beliefs, and actions to the wide-ass philosophy.
My personal philosophies are more wise-ass. But I don't think that navel-gazing from the inside, or head-up-the-ass philosophies will lead to useful enlightenment.
I could be wrong... It wouldn't be the 1st time...
#Philosophy

R.I.P. Margaret Ann Boden.
#margaretboden #cogsci #compsci #philosophy

"The tide pool is a cradle, not a cage." -- more @ #activism

Tide Pool Thinking
How Structure Makes Space for Imagination to Breathe

Existentialism is a philosophy that focuses on the question of what it means to be human. Un-existentialism focuses on what to do with the mess afterwards.
#Philosophy #UnPhilosophy #Facetionalism

“If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it... The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.” G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
He was a kook. Good reading, tho. Sometimes.
#Philosophy #Religion …

A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism
#Poetry #Philosophy

By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.
-Edwin Elliot (Really...not Edward? Anthony Hopkins trying to blow up the Kremlin?)
To be yourself is to wonder. Always wonder.
#MoreWonder in your #Philosophy

William James is right in that religious experiences are simply human experiences: “Religious happiness is happiness. Religious trance is trance.”
#Philosophy #HumanNature #Pragmatism

If this is too thinky, then, "Nyah nyah--I'm scissors, you're glue...wait...now we're BOTH all sticky!"
#TheoryOfMind #Philosophy

Thomas Nagel thinks most people use reason to create a unified world view.
I think almost everyone have a very limited window into reason, and that their "unified" view is jam-packed full of self-contradictions.
I'm right. No, no thanks is necessary. Carry on.
#Philosophy #WorldView

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
-Elie Wiesel (from his Nobel acceptance lecture https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1986/wiesel/lecture/)

Sometimes progress proceeds from sideways motions. Sometimes it proceeds from retro motion, then sideways motion, then slantwise.
Sometimes you should pass the baton. But ACTIVE wishfulness adds to reality.
Possibilism expands reality.
#Actualism #Find a new