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In what follows, I shall be rehearsing some arguments put forward by Wittgenstein, and some others developed by Wilfrid Sellars, Donald Davidson, and Robert Brandom. I think that these arguments help give a plausible sense both to the claim that nature itself is a poem that we humans have written, and to the claim that the imagination is the principle vehicle of human progress.
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Mentalese,
Often called Mentalese, the mental language resembles spoken language in several key respects: it contains words that can combine into sentences; the words and sentences are meaningful; and each sentence’s meaning depends in a systematic way upon the meanings of its component words and the way those words are combined.
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The Nietzschean view I have been sketching is often described as the doctrine that everything is “constituted” by language, or that everything is “socially constructed,” or that everything is “mind-dependent.”
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Rationality is a matter of making allowed moves within language games.
Rationality is linguistic
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We only begin to have knowledge when we can formulate such thoughts as this thing has a different color than that, but the same shape.
Meaning comes from relationships.
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s inseparable from the Cartesian story about the spectator sitting in a little theater inside the skull, watching represen-tations come and go, giving them names as they pass. Sellars parodied that account when he described a child mind confronting the manifold of sense. “Ah,” this mind says to itself, “there it is now! And another one! And another—a splendid specimen! By the methods of Mill, thismust be what Mother calls ‘red’!”
See Swift and Rabelais
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Getting the word “red” into circulation was a feat on a par with Newton’s persuading people to use the term “gravity.”
Amazing
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It is the ability to use persuasion to get what one wants.
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Unlike Hegel, and like Emerson, Nietzsche is making a purely negative point
Adorno?
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Nachlass,
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He spells out his point by saying:
Does this argue against O-O-O?
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commonplace,
there's that word again!
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The Gay Science,
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At the heart of philosophy’s quarrel with poetry is the fear that the imagination goes all the way down—that there is nothing we talk about that we might not have talked of differently.
This differentiates Analytic Philosophy from Theory.
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t is the ability to use persuasion to get what one wants.
Humans as the only rhetorical beings.
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For there is no such thing as the acquisition of information until there is language in which to formulate that information.
Language is Perception.
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He was equally contemptuous of the more sophisticated Kantian idea that an unknowable non-spatiotemporal thing-in-itself lurks behind the phenomenal world.
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that a thing freed from all relationships would still be a thing . . . .”
Meaning comes from putting two things in relation to each other.
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Just as the Enlightenment had deified Reason, so Shelley and other Romantics deified what I have been calling “the Imagination.”
What is revolutionary about this?
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Emerson,
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Romanticism
" a thesis about the nature of human progress. "
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idealism
Idealism=a meta-physical thesis about the ultimate nature of reality,
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Before we can rid ourselves of ontology, we are going to have to get rid of the idea of nonlinguistic access.
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When it comes to Reality, however, there is no such thing as common sense.
Reality and Commonsense don't align.
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Ontology is more like a playground than like a science.
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cognitive access
What does this mean?
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Ever since Plato, there have been people who worried about whether we can gain access to Reality, or whether the finitude of our cognitive faculties makes such access impossible.
The question!
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by replacing opinion with knowledge
How? What's the distinction?
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that their imaginations were more limited than ours.
How does the imagine and reality intersect here, i.e. Language is Perception?
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We would express our sense of finitude not by comparing our humanity with something nonhuman but by comparing our way of being human with other, better ways that may someday be adopted by our descendants.
How does getting rid of the Reality-Appearance distinction help us do this?
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a dangerous virus without a vaccine.
That's Rhetoric, though . . . but with velocity . . .
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“privacy” policies are actually surveillance policies.
Name change = perception change
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Images and text both "write."
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Brandon’s love for his community and frustration at seeing friends, family members and local businesses forced out while simultaneously watching the community become overrun by homelessness, trash, drugs and crime is what drove him to challenge Ted Lieu and put an end to the failed policies that are destroying not just coastal Los Angeles, but communities all over the nation.
What an asshole.
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anti-Trump agent Peter Strzok
This article isn't even trying to not be hackish partisan.
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New Literary History, 2016, 47: 67–82Getting Rid of the Appearance-Reality DistinctionRichard Rorty*Common sense distinguishes between the apparent color of a thing and its real color, betwee
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www.pechakucha.com www.pechakucha.com
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PechaKucha began because, well, because people talk too much!
Interesting.
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- Oct 2019
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www.tristanharris.com www.tristanharris.com
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Stole this from David Foster Wallace.
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- Sep 2019
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consequenceofsound.net consequenceofsound.net
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Under the pen of Aaron Sorkin, the messy world of American politics seems solvable.
I don't think you watched the show.
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These items connect an essay to a longer lineage of writers and working with these gears helps understand what kind of machine you’re working with
They also define the Interpretative Community:
LAST TIME I ended by suggesting that the fact of agreement, rather than being a proof of the stability of objects, is a testimony to the power of an interpretive community to constitute the objects upon which its members (also and simultaneously constituted) can then agree.
from "What Makes an Interpretation Acceptable?"
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HOW one constructs a problem IS the problem
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the need to join, in a reasoned way, a conversation of differing voices.
Joining a conversation.
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Whether I ’ m for or against.
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they do not see that a thesis implies a counterthesis and that the presence of opposing or alternative voices implies a view of knowledge as dialogic, contingent, ambiguous, and tentative.
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Although experts largely agree on what critical thinking means, they often disagree on how to teach it or to assess it.
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It is the challenge of faculty across the disciplines, along with their colleagues in writing pro-grams and writing centers — to show them other ways of imagining writing.
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To put it another way,
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The problem with traditional writing instruction was that it led to a view of writing as a set of isolated skills unconnected to an authentic desire to converse with interested readers about real ideas.
Too constructed.
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- Aug 2019
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Give both men 30 seconds to solo, and Frusciante would blow Young off the stage, just as Duane Allman would blow Frusciante off the stage. Young is something else, though.
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Even if you choose not to use Wi-Fi services we make available at MGM Resorts, we may still collect information concerning the precise physical location of your mobile device within and around MGM Resorts for non-marketing purposes.
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s led by sociopaths who politicized language,
Peggy Noonan doing her best 18th Brumaire rip off.That's right, Peggy Noonan is stealing from Marx.
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This is David Foster Wallace's line. Why wouldn't you acknowledge this?
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These people are white supremacists.
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Honey’s products do not support Do Not Track requests at this time, which means that we collect information about your online activity while you are using Honey’s products in the manner described above.
So even if you ask us not to track you, we will anyway.
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Once you delete your profile, there is no longer any data attributable to you.
Which means they do not delete all your information.
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After you have terminated your use of Honey’s products, we will store your information in an aggregated and anonymised format.
We keep your info forever, in other words.
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That means while you are using the Extension and Honey is saving you money,
Slickly written. These dudes are good!
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if they pay rent on time
So now corporations get to know if you pay your rent on time?
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“We can predict if residents are happy based on their digital interactions with the service, which gives us more information about whether they will renew their leases,” says Zego CEO Adam Blake.
happy? Defined as? Lisa Feldman Barrett, the Neuroscientist and author of How Emotions are Made, argues that emotions are constructed. In other words, who gets to say what is "happy"? Adam Blake does?
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forced out by the majority group, I believe it merits a moment of our thought. Why is this occurring? How are those being gentrified affected? Should this be addressed? How so? These are the types of questions we should be asking ourselves so that we as a society can make more intentional, informed decisions in the future rather than acting as if all of our actions occur in a vacuum where no such thing as a ripple effect exist.
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no longer afford to live there.
Good link. Interestingly, it references Whitman-Walker, which has now also sold out to Condos . . .
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However, the increasing prices in Dupont Circle are not only affecting businesses; they are affecting people too.
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close, including Schwartz Pharmacy, Janus Theater, and Larimer’s market
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strongly indicates
Well, some might counter that this is a small sample size, so are those two others already flush with cash? Or are they taking a different approach?
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It continues today with a half dozen offices in the region, and while it serves all clients, regardless of identity, it maintains its commitment to LGBT-oriented care.
Not any more!
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In this country, in other words,
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in the classical sense, not as in "Democrat."
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Think, say, of the recent TV commercial for the Saturn AURA
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First, "postmodernism is the consumption of sheer commodification as a process."
Textual evidence.
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Marxism, as Jameson formulates it,
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For Jameson,
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"Wait, tell me one more time. What’s postmodernism?"
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Marxism? Yes, relax:
Entertaining objections
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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No Criminal Collusion. Lots of Corruption.
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Weeks later, Trump signed the CLOUD Act into law, which gave US law enforcement more legal pathways to pursue data stories overseas. The provision was tucked into the $1.3 trillion spending bill Trump signed to avoid a federal government shutdown. With the new law on the books, federal prosecutors went back to court in and asked for another warrant to get the materials that Google refused to turn over. In an April 2018 affidavit, the FBI agent argued that "providers are required to disclose data even if it is stored abroad" under the new law. The judge approved the new search warrant later that day, giving investigators access to additional information from Google, including Cohen's emails, attachments, address book and files stored on Google Drive.
Wow. What if it was a pole got that snuck in the bill for this very reason? Or was it just luck?
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has showed? Are you kidding me?
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“(There is) $65 million for studying salmon. Man, you can go to the Red Lobster and study it for $12.95,” he said. “That’s ridiculous … We didn’t do anything, just spent you all’s money. It’s a disgrace.”
This makes Tim Burchett look as dumb as he actually is. This kind of logic is dumbfoundingly stupid, particularly from an elected official.
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then is it as marvellous a thing in him, . . .
Intellectual exciting for Melville.
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The Free Masons seem attracted to him.
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The classic example:
All whales are animals that breathe by means of lungs.<br> All whales are mammals.<br> All whales are animals that breath by means of lungs.<br>
In the Prior Analytics, Aristotle presents the first system of logic, the theory of the syllogism (see the entry on Aristotle's logic and ch. 1 of Lagerlund 2000 for further details). A syllogism is a deduction consisting of three sentences: two premises and a conclusion. Syllogistic sentences are categorical sentences involving a subject and a predicate connected by a copula (verb). These are in turn divided into four different classes: universal affirmative (A), particular affirmative (I), universal negative (E) and particular negative (O), written by Aristotle as follows:
A – A belongs to all B (AaB) I – A belongs to some B (AiB) E – A does not belong to any B (AeB) O – A does not belong to some B (AoB)
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The bestiary, or "book of beasts", is more than just an expansion of the Physiologus, though the two have much in common. The bestiary also describes a beast and uses that description as a basis for an allegorical teaching, but by including text from other sources it goes further; and while still not a "zoology textbook", it is not only a religious text, but also a description of the world as it was known.
The bestiary manuscripts were usually illustrated, sometimes lavishly, as for example in the Harley Bestiary and the Aberdeen Bestiary; the pictures served as a "visual language" for the illiterate public, who knew the stories - preachers used them in sermons - and would remember the moral teaching when they saw the beast depicted. Bestiary images could be found everywhere.
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“Having played in that offense, they don’t have an answer for all-out pressure,” Hoyer says. “Their answer is for the quarterback to make a play.” BENOIT: Super Bowl LIII Tale of the Tape: Two Dominant Defenses, Gurley’s Disappearance and the Real MVP The flip side? In this cat-and-mouse game, the Patriots knew McVay’s offense had different ways it could crush all-out pressure, so Flores had to be judicious about calling it. New England showed pressure a ton, but didn’t send everyone much at all.
What the hell? This totally contradicts itself, it seems. I've read it now three times, and I still can't figure out the hell it means.
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At Devin McCourty’s kitchen table on Friday, the the brothers brought up Hoyer’s value, Devin remembers a moment a moment during the team’s preparation for Kansas City in October when the first defense showed the scout team a blitz look that had all 11 defenders within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage.
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ItallowsustothinkofHegelasatheoristwhomadepossibletheinsightsthat“alltruthsareatbestmomentary,situational,andmarkedbyahistoryintheprocessofchangeandtransformation,”that“conceptsarenotautonomousbutratherrelational,”andthatthe“philosophicalproblem”is,“namely,thatofrepresentation,anditsdilemmas,itsdialectic,itsfailures,anditsimpossibility.
This is the key to it all.
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The dialectic is logos, linguistic.
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TheaimofthisbookistogetbehindthatmediatingscriminordertothinkaboutHegel’sworkdirectly,unencumberedbytheweightofHegelianismsandenergizedbyhisdaringappropriationofthedialecticofidentityanddifference.Itisalsotoindicatesomethingspecificbytheword“theory.
Needs us to forget what we've falsely been taught about Hegel.
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What Hegel's critics say.
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Inthisbook,IdemonstratehowHegel’sdialecticemergedfromthephilosophicalpracticesofmedievalthinkers,mappingaspreciselyaspossiblethelineamentsofHegel’sdebtandtheimplicationsofacknowledgingthatdebt(chaps.1and2)
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Identity and Difference is what makes the Hegelian Dialectic.
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Thethrillofthinking,thepleasureofthought,comesinthismomentof“combining...twodistinctprospects”acrossthegreatexpanse,overcomingnothingnessinturn.
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The problem that the Hegelian dialectic solves.
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Collective bargaining in action. And, more importantly perhaps, this puts Unions as a power to the people backstop. The action of Federal Employees, unionized, who could just stop showing up without fear of being fired is what we should be selling.
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there's always a race to be the last one to talk to Haslam before a big decision
Sounds like Trump!
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Haslam told the group he felt Jackson could relate better to players.
He's trying?
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Why not ", and that comfort"?
Comfortability?
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What Robert Mueller’s Peculiar Writing Style Tells Us About His Larger Legal Gambit
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This is amazing writing, Alex!
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What does he mean here?
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That's right cause the fear of Nukes weren't all pervasive in the 80s.
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Shouldn't you tell people that he was progenitor of Pizza Gate?
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Heroic figures? Icons?
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The original Americans who came over from Europe and founded this country
This makes no sense. How can one be original but not be original?
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carte blanche leash
Please don't let this become a thing: carte blanche leash.
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The Uber took a ‘weird way,’ is code for a girl really ran 20 minutes late.
And is a stupid person's way of making a bad excuse, since all ride services use Waze or GMaps.
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“It just seems like she’s playing a character,” she says. “I just wonder, if those views had not started gaining her attention, would we be getting this version of Britt McHenry?”
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“I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt, and I wish sometimes that was reciprocated for me, because I had to work really hard
Classic white aggrievement. Nowhere does she feel bad for the other human. She's all, "me me me!"
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That’s why I have a degree and you don’t” and “Maybe if I was missing some teeth they would hire me, huh?
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The researchers hypothesized that, because students can type faster
Her evidence for why students learn less with laptops
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Laptops distract from learning, both for users and for those around them
Supporting evidence for why she wants to ban laptops.
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2nd reason she wants to ban laptops.
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college students learn less when they use computers or tablets during lectures.
First reason she wants to ban laptops.
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That’s a discourse whose rhetorical modality or temporality is the future anterior. It is the threat of the catastrophe that will have been ours if we do not do X, Y, and Z. So you have this phantasmatic production of the apocalypse.
This is a way to consider this Referendum:
Shall property owned by the University System of Georgia and utilized by providers of college and university student housing and other facilities continue to be exempt from taxation to keep costs affordable?
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Such a key concept, I think. In fact, I'd say this is the US Dividing line.
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Theodor Adorno, The Culture Industry
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Here's a random student's thought on this:
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Martin Heidegger A very important philosopher. Most recently, his work has inspired a relatively new movement, Object-Oriented Ontology.
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There appear to be no hard feelings between the two
My God, you need editors. Unless this sentence is satire or something?
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There appear to be no hard feelings between the two.
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Saving money.
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Where you stand on this debate ultimately depends, like many fraught issues, not so much on facts but on ideas and ideology, and how you think about race, about fairness, about meritocracy.
Pathos wins out.
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