I wrote a long blog post on Kant's sentence: "Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind." There's a lot more going on there than is apparent at first sight!

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#philosophy #Kant

Eventually, philosophers arrived at the superiority theory of humor, according to which every joke is, at its core, a hostile attack designed to affirm the comic’s dominance and assure the subjugation of its target.

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#Plato #Aristotle #comedy #cruelty #ThomasHobbes #laughter #humor #philosophy #jokes #comic #dominance #subjugation

It's a question many of us might have been mulling, for no particular reason: Are we in the wrong timeline? @georgemusserjr writes for @SciAm about the scientific possibility of alternate timelines — what supports that they're real, and the fundamental puzzle that underpins them: What does it mean to be possible, but not actual?

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#Science #SpeculativeFiction #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SchrodingersCat #Philosophy #DarkestTimeline #ParallelUniverse

Are Alternate Timelines Real? Quantum Physics Explains

The multiverse offers no escape from our reality—which might be a very good thing

^{George Musser (Scientific American)}

Loving is a practice, and it’s something we can improve on, according to a philosopher 🥰🥰🥰

This is because love is made up of other skills such as listening carefully and being present. If you get better at these skills, you get better at loving.
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#philosophy #love #relationships