Justin E. H. Smith

@jehsmith

Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Paris | Cullman Center Fellow, New York Public Library, 2019-20 | Crex crex

Brooklyn and Paris
Vrijeme pridruživanja: prosinac 2008.

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  1. 31. sij

    Long before it existed as real technology, the internet was already (i) being conceptualised by analogy to living organic systems; (ii) extremely attractive to grifters.

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  2. 29. sij

    "The good [bonum] is said to be bonificative [bonificativum], bonificable [bonificabile], and bonificating [bonificans]; the great [magnum] is said to be magnificative [magnum], magnificable [magnificabile], and magnificent [magnificans]; and so on."

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  3. 27. sij

    "Loci 'from the form of the expression' are such as when, having conceded that you chewed and swallowed what you bought for lunch, and that you bought raw meat, someone concludes that you ate raw meat."

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  4. 27. sij

    "Loci 'from accent' are such as when someone infers that, because in hunting after a hare [lepŏrem] the hunter runs, so too the orator, in hunting after a clever line [lepōrem] in his speech, also runs."

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  5. 27. sij

    "Loci 'from composition' are such as when, from the fact that it is possible that a sitting person walks, or that a non-writing person writes, one infers that it can happen that someone who is sitting is walking, or that someone who is not writing is writing."

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  6. 27. sij

    I'll be in conversation with Jessica Riskin (Stanford) at the Commonwealth Club in Mill Valley, this Wednesday, January 29, at 7 pm. If you're in Northern California, come join us.

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  7. 19. sij

    "While in a number of cases dvāra-bhūtena [door-being] is translated into French as gardien du seuil [guardian of the threshold], it is most frequently rendered by a charmingly awkward portmanteau, porte-être, with resonances of both the porte-bagage and of the peut-être."

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    18. sij

    "Like police detectives who go undercover and become too attached to the trappings of the criminal underworld to ever return from it, so too are logicians drawn in by sophisms.” (Currently enjoying *Irrationality*)

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  9. 13. sij

    A thoughtful and generous review of Irrationality, from

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    12. sij

    “Figures who belong to the history of science prior to sometime in the 18th century were certain kinds of philosophers” Justin E. H. Smith () describes the real, often untold history of philosophy:

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  11. 10. sij

    Jessica Riskin and I will be in conversation at the Commonwealth Club in Marin County on Wednesday, January 29. Californians, come pay to hear us talk!

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  12. 9. sij

    My friend on the social Darwinist plan to destroy French research institutions:

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  14. 9. sij

    Once again: this will be of interest to other specialists and amateurs in North Asian and Turkic comparative linguistics.

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  15. 7. sij

    1755 сылга диэри Луизиана Франция колонията этэ , онтон 1803 сылга диэри Испания киэнэ. 1750-с сылларга британскай армыйа французскай Акадийцтары Канада илиҥҥи провинцияларыттан үүрэр. Бу тахсар түбэлтэ үгэс курдук ‘Улахан Түрүлүөн’ диэн ааттаннар.

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  16. 7. sij

    A lovely essay, though I don't know why Zink is so hard on Bernofsky for choosing 'motherkin'. This is not a 'portmanteau' of 'munchkin'. 'Munchkin' is a nonsense word, whose only real element is the suffix that it shares with 'motherkin', and that is cognate with German '-chen'.

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  17. 7. sij

    "[Translation's] a compromised art... Languages are incommensurate. The more you know them, the more you'll hate it."

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  18. 5. sij
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  19. 5. sij

    Акадийцтар соҕурууҥҥу Луизиана маардарыгар олохсуйдулар, онтон онно кинилэр кыра-кыратык ‘Каджуны’ буоллулар. 1847 сылга американскай поэт Гeнри Уордсворт Лоҥфелло кинилэр трагэдиялаах историяларын кини эпопэятыгар ‘Эванжелина’ кэпсиир.

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