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"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me"
http://paolosinterweblog.blogspot.com/
An interesting blog covering a variety of subjects from the ancient philosophers to meditations on the usage and meaning of language but with nothing taken too seriously.
Recent Posts
Time to move on...
Blogger has served me well as I took my first tentative steps in the blogging world but it has not become time to utilise my own domain. So I hope you'll all join me over in my new home at:http://www.socheese.comI'll see you all there,Paolo...
The origins of mythology...possibly
This image is one you will probably recognise if you've followed the news recently. She is Lali and was born in a village on the edge of Delhi with an exceedingly rare condition called Craniofacial Duplication meaning that she has been born with two ...
Can you keep a secret?
I'm tired and grouchy so what better vehicle for what little energy I have remaining than to take a moment aside to wax whingeful about a pet peeve of mine: PostSecret. For the origins of my distaste it is probably best to illustrate with an example...
Unmoved by the unmoved mover
It's funny how in philosophy everything seems to begin with Aristotle. Even the most basic philosophical distinction, that between physics and metaphysics or essentially between science and philosophy dates back to his book 'the Physics' -- everythin...
Newspeak
George Orwell was an intelligent man and seemed to have quite a good grasp of semiotics and the importance of language and its capacity to structure and regulate thought. In 1984 he created the concept of 'newspeak' which was a creation of the state ...
I've got two legs
At work I operate with two monitors. I always wondered what sort of crazy people would do that and consigned it to pit of things done by graphic designers and software editors. I actually need to access enough documents simultaneously these days that...


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