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I just realized that somebody wrote "Nietzsche Sux" on my whiteboard.

Now I'm going to babble philosophic in ad hoc lingo about stuff I haven't thought hard about yet:
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Whine, whine, whine--my life is full of discontent and belly aches.

Such has been my attitude as of late. But I realized something (again...for the nth time this weekend, but with more intensity) that made me happy again:

Nietzsche's a pragmatist!
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So for now I'll guess I'll try taking it for granted that we can define a type of truth by first selecting a task (which could amount to just a set of criteria) and then determining which concepts, beliefs, or whole-world-mental-models perform best at it.

The task I like best is something like "accurately, powerfully, and ( Read more... )

I think I've said something along the lines of this before, but I'm going to say it again under the illusion that saying it will cause me to start acting on it ( Read more... )