[1] Propositions have no inherent efficacy, even if they are true. [2] Thought experiments demonstrate much less than you think they do. [3] Proving that an argument is formally valid is not particularly impressive or persuasive. [4] It matters whether you actually...
[1] Propositions have no inherent efficacy, even if they are true. [2] Thought experiments demonstrate much less than you think they do. [3] Proving that an argument is formally valid is not particularly impressive or persuasive. [4] It matters whether you actually...
This essay consists of remarks delivered at Florida Gulf Coast University, on September 10, 2026. university was once an institution whose purpose was the education and acculturation of elites, which is why classics dominated the curriculum. This conception of the...
For normal people, immortality is one of those inchoate, unearnest desires born of negative feelings -- loss, fear, regret, and the like -- that is readily discarded in our more sober moments. Putting aside those who believe that we survive death as souls, spirits,...
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/ Orwell’s influential essay, originally published in 1946, when considered alongside his “The Prevention of Literature” (1946) and the Appendix to...