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The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture,…

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Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such…
Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum,…
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is…
Reductionism is merciless.
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for…
One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John…
The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that…
Irrationality is the square root of all evil
In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.
The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right…
No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.
The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

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