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Induction is the Atheism of meaning. Deduction is the monotheism of meaning. — infraheard (SB)

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In cartoons (particularly Looney Tunes), we often see a situation where a character runs off the edge of a cliff… and… for a time… keeps running forward through empty space… before suddenly realizing they are in mid-air … usually above a...

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‘Truth’ is a representational derivation that arises from analysis. The analysis, however, derives its verity from »axioms, which, in general are either asserted, or taken for granted. In this sense, representational ‘truth’ is derived not from...

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In a real emergency, what is required is that focus — personal and communal — shift rapidly to accommodate the tears in the fictions that preceded or catalyzed it. That starts with admitting the fictions that previously prevailed, and moving, individually and...

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I can »feel the world. The world at the soles of my feet. With my skin. Scents. My fingertips. And this is a kind of knowledge that is proto- to thought. Thought is a sense, too. An anciently evolved library of faculties. An unknown infinity. Most of us will barely...