Curtis
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existential Kripke
May 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
existential Kripke
Kant, once again a trendsetter: "Indignant, so to speak, at having my night's sleep disturbed, I resolved [...] to keep my lips closed tight and to breathe only through my nose." (Conflict of the Faculties, 7:110)
March 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Kant, once again a trendsetter: "Indignant, so to speak, at having my night's sleep disturbed, I resolved [...] to keep my lips closed tight and to breathe only through my nose." (Conflict of the Faculties, 7:110)
The only king I recognize.
February 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The only king I recognize.
"The bourgeoisie, it seems to me, may be defined intellectually by the use it makes of the analytic mode, whose initial postulate is that composite realities must necessarily be reducible to an arrangement of simple elements. [...]
I've written about this before, but an unstated yet very common belief among Democrats is that voters have fixed and exogenous preferences over policy that politicians cannot meaningfully influence. The goal of a politician/party/campaign is thus to position themselves close to the median voter.
January 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"The bourgeoisie, it seems to me, may be defined intellectually by the use it makes of the analytic mode, whose initial postulate is that composite realities must necessarily be reducible to an arrangement of simple elements. [...]
A summary of Sartre on Mallarmé: csommerl.github.io/sartre/malla...
Man, the fanatic
csommerl.github.io
January 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A summary of Sartre on Mallarmé: csommerl.github.io/sartre/malla...
"What is man, that 'fanatic,' if not a total and endlessly self-negating impotence who, in spite of himself, still manages to affirm himself?" (Sartre, Mallarmé, or the Poet of Nothingness, p. 124)
January 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"What is man, that 'fanatic,' if not a total and endlessly self-negating impotence who, in spite of himself, still manages to affirm himself?" (Sartre, Mallarmé, or the Poet of Nothingness, p. 124)
