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Showing posts with label novels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label novels. Show all posts
Monday, March 29, 2021

The pace of reception of goods

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Suppose I know that from now on for an infinite number of years, I will be offered an annual game. A die will be rolled, I will be asked to ...
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Monday, September 7, 2020

Two beauties

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In a number of cases of beauty, beauty is doubled up: there is the beauty in an abstract state of affairs and there is the beauty in that st...
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Wednesday, August 8, 2018

An argument for theism from certain values

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Some things, such as human life, love, the arts and humor, are very valuable. An interesting question to ask is why they are so valuable? ...
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Friday, March 24, 2017

Authorless books

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I've been imagining a strange scenario. I come across a text that I know for sure was generated by an entirely random process--say, the ...
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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Novels and worlds

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As the length increases, the possibilities for good novels initially increase. It may not be possible to write a superb novel significantl...
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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Metaphysically Aristotelian quantification

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There is a sense in Aristotelian metaphysics that "there are only substances". They are all there is a focal sense. Yet i...
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