/lit/ - Literature

>>21005406
this

The problem of induction is logically consistent but ignoring it is necessary for about 100% of scientific progress. The healthy mental conclusion of analytic philosophy is to instead become a scientist.

>Itself
>Themselves
>Herself

>elf
>elves

Very cool. Our language is full of elves.

>no Finnegans Wake

just read it and let your subconscious work it out

Pickman's Model

>tfw you sadly acknowledge that your infatuation with plato is probably just a phase, and after you move on from the greeks you'll come to realize that he wasn't that great in comparison, and what he said probably doesn't hold up
>tfw after reading medieval, renaissance, modern and contemporary philosophy, you revisit plato, and realize that still nothing compares
there are things that were straight up proven false (forms, recollection, transmigration/immortality of souls), but not one person matched his wisdom, purity and humility, which is honestly the most important aspect of any philosopher.

>yfw you begin living life as a shameless egoist

>not getting a boner from Apology

Something makes me hope this is and isn't an erotica

>compsci major
>finished my general ed today
>will never have to write an essay again

>tfw gf is giving a bj while you're reading a good book

>>5266144
>you will never be this much of a bluepill american

the mods are asleep. shitpost.

1984 is genre fiction. Prove me wrong.

>>5153642
>>5153658
Hey, me too.

If you went to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina and told someone at their front door in two weeks the Wright brothers would fly thousands of pounds through the air they would have looked at you like you were crazy. And sure enough, just two weeks later, all of those papers mathematically proving the impossibility of airplane flight were shown wrong.

>>5028952
>tfw not mad because I'm not a smelly marxist