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“'Do not touch ontologically' doesn't mean 'are separated by empirically measurable hard edges.'”

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'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.

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A weird thing is a strange loop, what some of us call 'an object.' Thus it is looked down on by the constructivist spokespeople…

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“Wholes subscend their parts, which means that parts are not just mechanical components of wholes, and that there can be genuine surprise and novelty…

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Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective…

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Always say less than you think you need. Inject some space into the conversation.

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In the end, a lifeform is always a hybrid, a being endowed with some X-power such as being able to breathe for a few…

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“I call this double truth of a thing its fragility, the inner fragility of a thing is why a thing can exist at all.…

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“Solidarity requires having something in common. But having something in common is exactly what culturalism sees as essentialism, and thus as reactionary primitivism. How…

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Spending some money on the you who is going to get a job is essential.

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What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.

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I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd,…

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