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.
@nytimes Use an Italian meringue rather than a French meringue. Yes, it’s more time consuming but the results are far more consistent with fewer problems.
Jean-Paul Sartre's daily drug cocktail: 2 packs of cigarettes, several tobacco pipes, 1+ quart of alcohol, 200mg of amphetamines, 15g of aspirin (grams!), a boat load of barbiturates, coffee, tea, and a few 'heavy' meals (according to biographer, Annie Cohen-Solal). #yolo
Talk to your epistemologist before trying Humera. Common side effects include: doubting causal phenomena, blurry sense impressions, sentimental moral attitudes, frequent billiard analogies, and the compulsive burning of metaphysical sophistry.
@CrispinSartwell Ethics may not provide guidance on what to do, but it makes you feel better about whatever you decide to do because it teaches you enough about how to defend your choices with reasons that you can usually avoid moral criticism from those lacking in philosophical education.
Dear Aldous Huxley: with great pain do I inform you that we now officially live in a world where journalists reference tweets as their sources, and where elected public officials use internet memes as evidentiary exhibits in congress.
@vernon_w_cisney The ways that people try to make money in this economy are endless. I just feel bad for the suckers who make other people rich by purchasing unnecessary things.
Undergrad: "Truth is power"
MA student: "Correspondence theory"
(Brief holiday visit home with family: "Foundherentism")
MA student: "Coherence theory"
PhD student: "Snow is white iff snow is white"
Professor: "The truth about truth is rather disappointing"
When philosophy sends its epistemologists, they’re not sending their best. They’re bringing foundationalism. They’re bringing coherentism. They’re contextualists. And some, I assume, are good people.
Colleges: “We encourage our graduates to be lifelong learners.”
Alumni: “Then give us lifetime access to your online library research databases.”
Colleges: “We might consider it if you give us donations.”
Alumni: “Lol. You should see our incomes.”