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culture history Philosophy politics

On Stupid Ideas and Clever Solutions

Countering stupid ideas proves to be a matter of some subtlety and intelligence…

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Philosophy

Topology, Boundary, Possibility

It is a mathematical and logical fact that there is always at least one way to extend a sufficiently sophisticated axiomatic system into new (and potentially useful) reconfigurations…

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culture

Contra Fake News

There exists a non-trivially common failure of aptitude in individuals’ capacity to distinguish between the truth of the (factual) existence of an assertion or statement and the actual, plausible or probable truth of that statement…