Tag: Bertrand Russell
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It is in the ocean that the river will realize it is not disappearing but becoming the ocean
There are some things I just can’t prove: that I am in pain, for example, and that it ebbs and flows like waves on the ocean. How would anybody know for sure, unless they were inflicting it, that it is pain that I am feeling -not something else? Let’s face it, I am the only…
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God-damned?
Sometimes there are no easy ways to cross a swamp and many of us have chosen to live in areas so removed we cannot even see the marsh; do not understand that it may be difficult for others to reach us; do not care that they may not want to. I have seldom privileged beliefs…
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I had as lief have been myself alone
Just because something is missing, does that mean it should be there -or would be there under normal circumstances? Suppose someone does not realize it’s missing and has no thoughts about it. Under those circumstances, is it really missing -or does that description apply only when it’s noticed? Is the evidence of absence the same…
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