Okay, now there's an interesting problem. It just occurred to me. Assume a lexicon or dictionary with a finite number of words in any language you like. Now, presumably words that enter a language can only be described by other words, the finite words in the list. Thus any new words must in some sense already be a part of the language, the ( Read more... )

Here, this is Derrida’s big insight
This is a bit of my thesis, which I’m quoting*

“This is Ryle’s second radical insight ( Read more... )

They moved it into Schedule 2. It means you’ll have to write a little bit more on the back of your hand to memorize, but it’s a stronger power, because now it covers people, not just corporations. You can get the bloke up the road having a garage sale with it and further, you can now get them on something ‘likely’ to mislead, not just misleading. ( Read more... )

Zombie Angel

Wicked genesis

Part One

000 001

Habriel soared over a low lying sprawl of ravaged cities and wasteland squaller. He was in the greater municipal of the Netropolis. He came down between two glass metal spires, scouted lower and glanced back. Another Angel, Zareial, came in close behind him.

“Down there,” Habriel pointed to a low lying ( Read more... )

The Atheist Factory ( Read more... )

Finally got stuck into the Devitt article. It’s only 35 pages long, but it contains a litany garnered from half a century of insights, in a brilliantly complex, yet elegant system for a theory of mind. It’s brilliant. Sits together like a bit of machinery. - I started reading it one time at that thai noodle bar up the road here but they served me ( Read more... )

Full version ( Read more... )

The Sadistic Kingdom ( Read more... )

Dixieland was just an idea I liked - what would an American Myth look like. The concept was simple, you start in a mythical Europe that has been devastated wars, a sort of Napoleonic-Post WWII Europe where the myth had died, and into that you incorporate an embedded philosophical history, sort of larger than life Philosophical Patriarchs who had ( Read more... )

Metalology Part I ( Read more... )