Philosophy out of Context

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“Masturbating with a chicken could spread disease.” —Joshua Greene, “The secret joke of Kant’s soul”

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“co-perforation is supposed to be an equivalence relation among hole-linings, and when you say there are two holes you are trying to say that there are two non-identical co-perforation classes of hole-linings.” —David Lewis, “Holes” (1970)

[Governor Gretchen Whitmer @GovWhitmer]

This is exactly the rhetoric that has put me, my family, and other government officials’ lives in danger while we try to save the lives of our fellow Americans. It needs to stop.

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“Who can deny the mood-destroying effect of an errant flatus just at the moment of erotic fervor?” (Colin McGinn, The Meaning of Disgust, p. 194)

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@VanCleave75 ✊🏾👊🏾

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“Hitler was not wrong...” (Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works, p. 182) #philosophy #humor #Fascism #Context

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“It is entirely reasonable to assume that future generations will want to eat” (Paul B Thompson, From Field to Fork, p. 164).

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“There have been black dogs” (Quine, Word and Object, p. 66).

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“A flawed ideology that systematically prevents an agent from realizing that the Syracuse Orange basketball team will not win the National Championship every year is not democratically worrying” (Jason Stanley, How Propaganda Works).

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“There are exactly sixty-three bugs” (Hartry Field, Science Without Numbers).

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“Door handles may pose real obstacles to children, or the disabled, or visitors from remote cultures” (Alva Noë, Strange Tools)