#philolol

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Quand tu étais persuadée que c’était la loi d’Osthoff...

...et que ta prof te dit que tu t’es trompée

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Quand tu brilles en cours de philologie

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Twea

A person living on Twin Earth making an infusion of leaves with boiling twater would be making twea, not tea*.

TWEA.

These are the things that please me.

*It's funny because if you're a Putnumian, this is philosophically sound, and also because 'twea' sounds like 'wee'.

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[I]t disrupts all other brain processes... causing instant death... 'killer yellow,' is fatal

 - David Lewis, 'Naming the Colours', Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology, p. 344.

The idea of 'killer yellow' is attributed originally to unpublished lectures by Saul Kripke.

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[T]he stone which by nature moves downwards cannot be habituated to move upwards, not even if one tries to train it by throwing it up ten thousand times

Aristotle, The Nichomachean Ethics,  II.i, David Ross(trans.), J L Ackrill andJ O Urmson (rev.), 1998

I just kinda get the feeling he tried?

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I move my hand first over a marble statue and then over a living man... the live body which receives these operations feels different sensations according to the various places touched... A piece of paper or a feather drawn lightly over any part of our bodies... excites in us an almost intolerable titillation.

Galileo, from The Assayer, in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, Stillman Drake (trans.), 1957, pp. 273-9

One of the pleasures of teaching about primary and secondary qualities is getting a bunch of 18 year olds to read about Galileo moving his hands all over men and statues of men and 'titillating' them with feathers.

There's also a good deal of 'tickling' involved. It's fun.

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A gry is 1/10 of a line, a line is 1/10 of an inch, an inch is 1/10 of a philosophical foot, a philosophical foot is 1/3 of a pendulum, whose diadroms, in the latitude of 45 degrees, are each equal to one second of time to one second of time, or 1/60 of a minute. I have affectedly made use of this measure, here... because, I think, it would be of general convenience

John Locke, 1700, A Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Section 10, f.17.

Ah, yes, the gry, we learnt about that in... hang on. No, no we didn't.

I'm sorry, Locke, it didn't really catch on.

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We are got into fairy land, long ere we have reached the last steps of our theory

 David Hume, 1748, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, 7.24

David Hume lays down the bitch slap on occasionalism.