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Monday, August 13, 2018

Trojan Horsitude

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 3:33 am
 

"It is said that the students of medieval Paris came to blows in the streets over the question of universals. The stakes are high, for at issue is our whole conception of our ability to describe the world truly or falsely, and the objectivity of any opinions we frame to ourselves. It is arguable that this is always the deepest, most profound problem of philosophy. It structures Plato's (realist) reaction to the sophists (nominalists). What is often called 'postmodernism' is really just nominalism, colourfully presented as the doctrine that there is nothing except texts. It is the variety of nominalism represented in many modern humanities, paralysing appeals to reason and truth."

— Simon Blackburn, Think,
    Oxford University Press, 1999, page 268


". . . a perfect triptych of horsitude"

James Parker on the 2007 film "Michael Clayton"

Related material —

Horsitude in the 4×2 grid, and

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