I'd kinda worked out that people who know about this stuff didn't think it was a good account. Was more remarking that calling things dark and black (and, indeed, wimps and machos) sort of invites simplistic and…
There's a certain nominative-deterministic inevitability to all this. There are these things called black holes that apparently are a full of a lot of stuff and aren't completely understood. And there's this mysterious…
This triggers some thoughts that I haven't quite joined up yet. Likewise, some reds and some greens are interchangeable to me. I imagine the different colouring of intervals that you hear in different keys is due to…
Surely you make your own intellectual life and take it with you wherever you go? You will think more interesting thoughts in a terrible place. Most ideas that matter are born from adversity or quiet reflection. And…
And Europe
Great article. The entanglement of The Enlightenment in everyday thinking is the source of much confusion and irony. I imagine we'll grow out of it. I'm reminded of a 1980s BBC film of Alan Bennett's "The Insurance Man"…
Whenever mine has gone much above 30% (70ish prob highest ever) it generally turns out to be an unattended app left open on the android device I have hanging off the back of the TV. I recall the NYT app, for example,…
It's like the dictionary vs encyclopedia thing. A dictionary (vocabulary) is probably the best we can hope for. I have a foggy recollection that Jerry Fodor (Holism) or maybe Eco had thoughts on the matter.
My enduring memory of Burgess was on a highbrow literary quiz show where he failed to identify a passage from Proust. Chagrined and with as straight a face as he could muster he explained that he had only ever read…
I kinda imagine the HN bait (not taken up) was the guy who simply needed space to count to a million and back. I've read a lot of books less interesting than this story. If born a few years later, would he have…
Don't try this at home ...
I'm speechless.
I'd kinda worked out that people who know about this stuff didn't think it was a good account. Was more remarking that calling things dark and black (and, indeed, wimps and machos) sort of invites simplistic and…
There's a certain nominative-deterministic inevitability to all this. There are these things called black holes that apparently are a full of a lot of stuff and aren't completely understood. And there's this mysterious…
This triggers some thoughts that I haven't quite joined up yet. Likewise, some reds and some greens are interchangeable to me. I imagine the different colouring of intervals that you hear in different keys is due to…
Surely you make your own intellectual life and take it with you wherever you go? You will think more interesting thoughts in a terrible place. Most ideas that matter are born from adversity or quiet reflection. And…
And Europe
Great article. The entanglement of The Enlightenment in everyday thinking is the source of much confusion and irony. I imagine we'll grow out of it. I'm reminded of a 1980s BBC film of Alan Bennett's "The Insurance Man"…
Whenever mine has gone much above 30% (70ish prob highest ever) it generally turns out to be an unattended app left open on the android device I have hanging off the back of the TV. I recall the NYT app, for example,…
It's like the dictionary vs encyclopedia thing. A dictionary (vocabulary) is probably the best we can hope for. I have a foggy recollection that Jerry Fodor (Holism) or maybe Eco had thoughts on the matter.
My enduring memory of Burgess was on a highbrow literary quiz show where he failed to identify a passage from Proust. Chagrined and with as straight a face as he could muster he explained that he had only ever read…
I kinda imagine the HN bait (not taken up) was the guy who simply needed space to count to a million and back. I've read a lot of books less interesting than this story. If born a few years later, would he have…
Don't try this at home ...
I'm speechless.