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Harrison’s way out of the dilemma is to first recognize that “science” and “religion” are only tentative shorthand for a disparate collection of various competing ideas and methodologies. “Science,” for example, has become...
“Two-Way Monologue: How to Get Past Science vs. Religion—The Los...” at lareviewofbooks.org
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“The French don’t want to work anymore, they all want to write,” my concierge told me, unaware that she was then and there passing judgment on all old civilizations.
E. M. CIoran quoted in Bénabou 1998 p. 67
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In our day, three smart remarks and a lie make a writer.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quote in Bénabou 1998 p. 67
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[M]any authors advocate a principle of effability, according to which a natural language can express anything that can be thought. A natural language is supposedly capable of rendering the totality of our experience
mental or physical--and consequently able to express all our sensations perceptions abstractions up to the question of why is there Something instead of Nothing. It is true that no purely verbal language ever entirely achieves total effability: think of having to describe in words alone the smell of rosemary. We are always required to supplement language with ostensions expressive gestures and so-called “tonemic” features. Nevertheless of all semiotic systems nothing rivals language in its effability.—Eco 1997 p. 23
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Epagogix advises movie studios on what scripts to buy, based on how closely they match past, successful scripts.
“Algorithms can be a digital star chamber– Frank Pasquale—Aeon” at aeon.co
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Janner faces a rare form of trial known as a trial of the facts. The defendant cannot put forward a defence, no verdict is reached and the court does not pass sentence. The court can only decide whether the offences were...
“Lord Janner makes first court appearance over child sex abuse claims” at www.theguardian.com
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One part of our article that caused concern was a centerpiece map (compiled from phone book data) showing NSA and GCHQ monitoring stations scattered across Britain.
“GCHQ and Me” at firstlook.org
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l’edizione appena mandata in libreria da Einaudi si presenta in altra veste. Delle oltre cinquecento pagine della versione originale, ne sono sopravvissute meno della metà, integrate con testi tratti da un paio di altre...
“LA GUERRA DI AMIS” at tommasopincio.net
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One should apply the basic rule of Stalinist hermeneutics here: since the official media do not openly report on the troubles, the most reliable way to detect them is to search for the positive excesses in state propaganda –...
“LRB · Slavoj Žižek · Sinicisation” at www.lrb.co.uk
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Still aware of some supernatural occurrences, she embarked on an act that saddened her family when they learned of it after her death: she decided to destroy her priceless collection of oriental treasures. A bequest from an...
“Rosemary Tonks the lost poet” at www.theguardian.com