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My posts are elucidatory in this way: anyone who understands me in the end recognizes them as nonsensical.
July 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Fichte invented the dissertation!

"Fichte not only insisted on offering the [PhD] degree, but added two novel requirements: candidates needed to write their own dissertations — and they needed to be works of original research."
July 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Lisan al Gaib getting off a call and grading 6 exams in 30 minutes
March 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The closing paragraph of Ryle's review of Being and Time is sufficiently inscrutable in its implicatures that I can't even tell whether it's meant as an insult:

"Sein und Zeit, it is worth mentioning, is most beautifully printed and the pages have generous margins."
March 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM