Phil I

philosophy & philosophers, occasional footnotes & anecdotes re same

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I have a strong Desire for some answers .. and to give some ill-gotten money to say.. @bobwillisfund, @WFP.. @amnesty .. @FeedingAmerica .. @crisis_uk or such-like @bobdylan -favoured good causes

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pop quiz prompted by *small* win at the bookies & music listened to in aftermath: songs by Bob Dylan that feature the accordion, bonus points where he plays it himself, no cheating with the google, best winner(s) in next 24hrs can name a charity for a *modest* donation @csandis

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Harry Todd Costello: "Indifferent to social life ... secluded himself to the point of eccentricity, devoting all his time to reading ... died suddenly in 1960, having lived for thirty-nine years in a cluttered suite of two rooms on the Trinity College campus." #philosophe_du_jour

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Cornell 1949, J.B. Schneewind, Max Black, and "an elderly man in a plaid shirt"

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Anthony Kenny: “We had been privileged to be given the task of bringing up members of the nation’s political elite. But what had we done for Boris?"

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@J_H0USTON

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@kroftopkin .. aha, this will be whence (but, of course, its reproduced in 'Life and Logic' and the one with Maria Kokoszyńska-Lutmanowa is taken straight from it) https://t.co/3UqpR80L1z

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Tarski and Gödel 1935 photo taken (I think) by Maria Kokoszyńska-Lutmanowa (pictured below with Tarski in Paris the same year) [both pics likely sourced from "Alfred Tarski: life and logic" h/t @kroftopkin ]

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Tarski and Gödel, Vienna, 1935

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Tarski and Gödel, Vienna, 1935

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@itaisher "Although an angel, considered absolutely, is better than a stone, nevertheless two natures are better than one only" Scriptum super Sententiis, lib. I, dist. 44, quaest.1, art 2; transl. by Lovejoy 1936, p.77 https://t.co/LzPatvZi1C

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@MisakCheryl @JoWolffBSG "I remember [Ryle] complaining that a portrait of him made him look like a drowned German general: but that was exactly what he did look like." - Michael Dummett

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Queer fellow, Geach

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"I may add that quite recently Mr. Whitehead and the Hon. Bertrand Russell have treated of the subject; but they seem merely to have put truths already known into a uselessly technical and pedantic form." [Lowell lecture, 1903]

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born 10 September 1839, the ever aptly modest C. S. Peirce

[Phil I @twts_phil]

born 10 September 1839, the ever aptly modest C. S. Peirce