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15 posts tagged Essays, newest first.
Truth at the limit of a moving method
A paper on Quine against Peirce: defining truth as what inquiry converges on needs a notion of one theory being nearer than another. Statistics can supply that, and the standards deciding what counts as a method still move underneath it.
Sharing: Reflections on Looking at a Mirror
Sharing Lu Xun's essay 'Reflections on Looking at a Mirror,' and using its satire of xenophobia to comment on the cultural insecurity behind today's 'cultural confidence' rhetoric.
Electronics Will Not Harm Contemporary Society
The model essays kept arguing that electronics tempt people and waste their time. Creative work has diminishing returns and society keeps automating itself, which is why I think the premise is wrong.