October 2009
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The One Argument Ayn Rand Couldn’t Win →
William James once argued that every philosophic system sets out to conceal, first of all, the philosopher’s own temperament: that pre-rational bundle of preferences that urges him to hop on whatever logic-train seems to be already heading in his general direction. This creates, as James put it, “a certain insincerity in our philosophic discussions: the potentest of all our premises is never...
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Inappropriate Google Suggests
The Huffington Post has a list of inappropriate Google suggests up on their site right now. This reminded me of one I came across a month ago or so:
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