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ExplicitImplicity or ExpImp is a user of the English Wikipedia since 2002. It registered this account on September 11, 2006.
As of January 7, it made 524 edits in the Main namespace.[1], with 95% edit summary usage.[2]
This user is studying English and Linguistics at University and is occupying most of his free time with Philosophy and similar boring stuff.
i like the truth
i'm searching for truth. but i haven't even decided where to look for it. but since reading first derrida and later camus i have begun to evaluate the idea that there is no truth out there.
sometimes i am like a little child, crying out: "i want my noumenon!!" of course this hasn't worked as of yet.
i like the wikipedia
i consider the wikipedia to be some kind of "book of books". wikipedia accounts for 85% of my online time. and no other site in the world has such great pages.
i like great quotes
on truth
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One day a strange man came into town and claimed to be the prophet.
The townspeople didn't believe him. "Proof it to us!" they said.
The man pointed to the wall surrounding their settlement:
"If this wall will speak to you... will you believe me?"
"By God, we will believe you." they said. The Man moved towards the wall,
stretched out his hand and shouted: "Speak, oh great wall!"
And then, after a while the wall began to speak:
"This man is no prophet. He is fooling you, he is a liar."
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god could have used an infinite number of ways to create the world, there is no way we can figure that out, so if we find a way that works, we take that to be the correct way, the way it actually happened. |
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- --Principles of Philosophy, Descartes, as given by Prof. Steven Goldman [3]
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once you are absolutely sure what makes Smith tick, you know everything about him you would care to know, look into the mirror and say three times: "i may be wrong, i may be very wrong, i may be hopelessly wrong". and you'll probably be right. |
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- --Prof. Daniel N. Robinson, talking about the "Witch craze"[4]
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we think that scientific methods tend to settle matters once and for all. but there may be some later reckoning according to which our confidence here was exaggerated and perhaps misplaced. so let's always keep in mind that although history inevitably leads up to us, it does not end with us. |
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- --Prof. Daniel N. Robinson on "Knowledge or Certainty"[4]
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the planets don't move in ellipsis. and not because of some cute little reason like - "well, they flutter" or "it's a little off". an ellipse is a closed curve. but because the planets are moving around the sun, and the entire solarsystem is also moving, the planets never return to the same place. it is only if you say: let's pretend that the sun is FIXED that the planets move in ellipsis. so even saying that the planets move in elliptical orbits is a peculiar illustration of how, as we were warned by Fleck how we reify our classification schemes. how we make facts out of assumptions. |
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For one could always say "let us calculate" and judge properly, insofar as reason and the data can furnish us the means to do so. |
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- --Gottfried Leibniz on his "Characteristica universalis"[5]
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Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason. |
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- --Sir John Harrington on his "Characteristica universalis"[6]
On Science
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I have not as yet been able to discover the reason for these properties of gravity from phenomena, and I do not feign hypotheses. For whatever is not deduced from the phenomena must be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, or based on occult qualities, or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. In this philosophy particular propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction. |
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On Life
a hedgehog living a life in joy.
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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. |
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. |
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- --Rabindranath Tagore[9]
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Thus the forest of uplifted arms demanding work becomes ever thicker, while the arms themselves become ever thinner. |
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- --Karl Marx[10]
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The solutions all are simple... after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are. |
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On God, Religion and the Priest
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If God is willing, but not able, he is not omnipotent.
If God is able, but not willing, he is malevolent.
If God is both willing and able, then whence cometh evil ?
If God is neither willing, nor able, then why call him god ?
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--possibly Epicure, maybe not[12]
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Religion is thought
by the common man to be true,
by the wise man to be false,
by the rulers to be useful.
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--maybe Seneca the Younger[13]
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There is in every village a torch: The School teacher.
And an extinguisher: The Priest.
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--possibly Victor Hugo[14]
i like quotes that sound great
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Thy dawn, O Master of the World, thy dawn;
For thee the sunlight creeps across the lawn,
For thee the ships are drawn down to the waves,
For thee the markets throng with myriad slaves.
For thee the hammer on the anvil rings,
For thee the sabre of the warrior sings.
For thee the waggons of the world are drawn—
The ebony of night, the red of dawn!
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- --James Elroy Flecker/Richard Maibaum - Hybrid Poem [15][16]
even more...
Great People
Axemakers
Artists
El Lissitzkys
Wolkenbuegel
Travels
I have visited the following parts of the World
Northern Europe
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Belgium 
Luxembourg[17] 
France 
Germany 
East Germany (still existing at the time)
Southern Europe
Hungary 
Switzerland 
Austria 
Italy 
San Marino[17] 
Spain 
Portugal 
Turkey 
Greece 
Croatia (
Yugoslavia at the time)
Asia
Turkey[17]
Americas
United States 
Cuba
other B/S
References
- ^ Wannabe-Kate-Editcount-Tool
- ^ http://www.math.ucla.edu/~aoleg/wp/rfa/edit_summary.cgi?user=ExplicitImplicity&lang=en
- ^ a b The Teaching Company, Steven Goldman Science Wars
- ^ a b The Teaching Company, Daniel N. Robinson Great Ideas in Psychology
- ^ http://www.dsi.unive.it/~pelillo/Didattica/Storia%20dell'informatica/Lezione%208.pdf
- ^ Curt Breight: "Treason doth never Prosper": "The Tempest" and the Discourse of Treason, Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring, 1990), pp. 1-28, online at http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037-3222(199021)41%3A1%3C1%3A%22DNP%22T%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3
- ^ Isaac Newton (1726). Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, General Scholium. Third edition, page 943 of I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman's 1999 translation, University of California Press ISBN 0-520-08817-4, 974 pages.
- ^ http://www.english.emory.edu/DRAMA/Aesch.html
- ^ http://www.fdu.edu/newspubs/honorees/bronson.html
- ^ Lohnarbeit und Kapital
- ^ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values [1]
- ^ The BBCs Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief claimed it was him
- ^ [2] claims it was him
- ^ The Guardian claims it was him: [3]
- ^ The Story of Hassan of Baghdad and How He Came to Make the Golden Journey to Samarkand
- ^ OHMSS (imdb)
- ^ a b c i left the same day i got there
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