Humean Fork

@HumeanFork

Philosophy, Politics, Humor, and other such Ideological Excrescence.

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    26 Jul 2019

    Some call it verbosity, I call it textual descriptivity whose discursive materiality originates from the intentionality of an agent whose antecedent mental activity embodies the operative disposition of aversion to transcriptivity of causative epistemic misapprehension.

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  2. Feb 1

    Translation: “I’m proud that my ancestors fought for the continuation of human slavery.”

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  3. Feb 1

    Teaching people how to be psychologically well-adjusted in a sick society is a great business model because it doesn’t actually address the causes of social maladies.

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  4. Jan 22

    Dear philosophy departments: why are we allowing non-philosophy departments to teach most of the continental philosophy?

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  5. Jan 18

    [toddler pointing finger] “Look Mom, an analytic philosopher.” Mom: “Don’t worry, dear. It’s more afraid of you than you are of it.”

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  6. Jan 17
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  7. Jan 17

    Remember kids: while knowing all of the physical facts about psilocybin is impressive, one must actually trip on mushrooms in order to learn something new.

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  8. Jan 16

    The David Brooks reader, therefore, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and ruins his mind.

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  9. Jan 16

    Look, Thucydides is a good friend of mine. But one of the major differences between us is that Thucydides voted for the Peloponnesian War, while I led the opposition.

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  10. Jan 14

    Is it a problem that academics seem not to spend much time with non-academics?

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  11. Jan 11

    (A) Sci is harder than phil, but phil is more important than sci. (B) Phil is harder & more important than sci. (C) Phil is harder than sci, but sci is more important than phil. (D) Sci is harder & more important than phil.

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  12. Jan 11

    Yeah, I’m a trinitarian. I believe in the deductive Father, the inductive Son, and the abductive Holy Spirit.

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  13. Jan 11

    You take the Quine pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

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  14. Jan 11

    Which view in the philosophy of mind is the most plausible?

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  15. Jan 10

    Can we all just admit that philosophy is more difficult than science, but that science is far more important than philosophy?

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  16. Jan 10

    Panpsychists are the anti-Ghostbusters of philosophy. But instead of working to remove spooky entities from the world, their proton packs function in reverse to recklessly defile the ontological landscape by saturating it with the paranormal.

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  17. Jan 10

    Philosophy is a chronic, progressive, and incurable disease that besets the human mind.

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  18. Jan 8

    The humanities are in crisis. But don’t worry, the analytic philosophers will eventually turn philosophy into a STEM field anyways.

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  19. Jan 8

    The ability to comprehend philosophy in a non-native language is the best indicator of having mastered a foreign language.

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  20. Jan 5

    Are some branches of philosophy inherently more difficult than others?

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  21. Jan 4

    Poor families who watch television commercials suffer psychological abuse. For they are constantly inundated with depictions of the average family as a group of highly educated persons of attractive physique, who harmoniously coexist in the comfort of clean million-dollar homes.

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