Stephen Fry about philosophy and atheism
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Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at “Philosophy”.
— xkcd
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“Awesome” is not a philosophical landmine. If someone encounters the word “right”, all sorts of bad philosophy and connotations send them spinning off into the existential void. “Awesome”, on the other hand, has no philospohical respectability, hence no philosophical baggage.
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A map of the universe by René Descartes from Principia philosophiae, 1644, one of many fascinating depictions in this visual history of mapping the cosmos
Reblogged from Explore
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Sokal affair
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An Airline attendent asks Descartes if he’d like some nuts. “I think not” he says and disappears.
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The Beauty of Algebra
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