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The opening of Mortiz Schlick's General Theory of Knowledge : There was once a time when philosophers marvelled that man could move hi...

As always, dashed-off notes. intransitive to be: to exist transitive to be: to cause x (to make x to be) intr. reflexive to be: to act (...

In her excellent Rhetorics of Fantasy , Farah Mendlesohn identifies four major forms of fantasy literature, by looking at the way in which t...

Midnight by James Russell Lowell The moon shines white and silent On the mist, which, like a tide Of some enchanted ocean, O'e...

Thought for the Evening: Assertion, Fiction, and Truth It's a common view in contemporary philosophy of language that the act of asser...

The Windmill by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Behold! a giant am I! Aloft here in my tower, With my granite jaws I devour The maize, ...

I have already once observed in a contest of pancratiasts how one of the combatants inflicted blows with hands and feet, all well aimed, and...