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" … I should have waited for the circumstances to compose themselves into a "picture" of what kind of person I am dealing with. Your real identity has never interested me. Your last post has revealed everything that I ever wanted to know about you, thank you." What a shame that y...

Memo duszek. Please do not send me any more private messages in French, demanding to know, with insulting faux humility (“je m’incline”), under the discrete cover of your own secure (highly commendable) anonymity, “to whom you owe the honour”. Please do not ask me to reveal my alleged “true identity...

Time is a word, nothing more. Like it or not’, try as we might, this word ‘time’ does not ‘refer’ to anything you can point a stick at. That depends on how you regard time. If time "is had" by some other more basic property then it has no independent existence. Are you are saying the firs...

Time is a word, nothing more. Like it or not’, try as we might, this word ‘time’ does not ‘refer’ to anything you can point a stick at. We use this word habitually, carelessly and thoughtlessly, just as we most often use every other word in our indispensable, memorised lexicon, as a convenient, stri...

What is a photograph, how are photos used today in our hyper modern societies. This thread to be all about the photo. I will start by posting a link to a written piece I read recently, it is about the photo and also its use, so it fits here quite well. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/...

We measure time in order to be at a certain place in the future because other people want to be there too and so we can meet them. To attend a lecture for example. The present time does not exist because it is either not yet or already gone. Past time is only relevant as experience stored in our me...

I’m sorry, the first sentence already makes my teeth curl. “Early in the Twentieth Century, philosophy diverged into two camps: analytic and Continental philosophy. Since then they have pulled up their drawbridges, ceased communicating, and, like groups separated by mountains or oceans, the language...