bess

umich '21, philosophy Ph.D. student at MIT, not on here that much rn!!

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why does the beetle in the box need to live rent free in my head? he already has a box!

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@malisolves very much for the girlies and SO fun!!!! tysm 😭🩷

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why are people so worried about the qua problem :(

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guys please. does anyone know how quine came up with the (absolutely fantastic, iconic, slay) name "bernard j ortcutt"!?

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me writing papers: well i guess i'll just bold this, italicize that, use tractatus-style section numbering, put something in corner quotes, use small caps for concepts, and come up with a few hundred acronyms. all in the name of clarity of course

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@ZalRothschild about the paper or the joke?

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i'm writing a paper with a section on whether everything that's necessary is also necessarily necessary. i have entitled that section:

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@generalpov and i would (and will, i'm sure) do it again 😜

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it was not very fair that mcdowell just went and took "mind and world" as a title when very many of us indeed are also writing about those two things

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@generalpov VERY good question. many people are asking this

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this is the first week I’ve ever heard the whole blue album played at the MIT gym and I just want to know what took so long

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@Hyde_Michael98 isn’t that unbelievable?! the audacity!

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why does the beetle in the box need to live rent free in my head? he already has a box!

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cyd is a fellow philosopher and wonderful person. please help out if you can <3
https://t.co/horC5UBt0f

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@BaxterJanella Amazing idea!!! We did this in my first phil sci course and I think it genuinely changed the course of my life

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@generalpov I’m trying to think of an uncontroversial description of Sally Rooney for u and all I’ve got is “Irish novelist” 😭

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life hack: send your grad school friends long, weird emails this summer, and feel like a sally rooney character in as little as five minutes!

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@NoamChompers @generalpov the tame impala of novelists, if you will

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@generalpov oh she’s just this very lowkey, very underground indie novelist