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6316923 No.6316923 [Reply] [Original]

does anyone want to help me think of an epigraph for my philosophy thesis?

it's about whether the B-theory of time can accommodate our common-sense idea of time passing (i.e. whether our experience of time as 'passing' maps to anything true in a tenseless 4-dimensional view or is just bullshit,) but I'm having a hard time coming up with anything that isn't obvious le time is a flat circle shit. right now i'm thinking of using an excerpt from conrad aiken's 'letter from li po'

help me out and i'll put you in my thanks section or whatever

>> No.6316934

>>6316923

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

>> No.6317045
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>>6316923
"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable."
-Opening lines of the first of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, Burnt Norton.

>> No.6317060

>>6317045

Mankind cannot bear very much reality would be better, since OPs thesis can be answered by "it's all bullshit" rather than mapping to anything.


Time's a load of old bollocks basically. That's what I say when I'm late for work and nobody's called me out on it yet.

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>>6316923
Your thesis sounds better than mine (philosophical implications of tarski's undefinability theorem).

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>>6316923
>does anyone want to help me think of an epigraph for my philosophy thesis?

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>>6316923
>does anyone want to help me think of an epigraph for my philosophy thesis?

>> No.6317101

>>6317073
kek

>> No.6317123

>>6316934
This, close with a joke to win the jury.

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>>6317123
the joke being that he's in a psychology class

>> No.6317233

>>6316923
You can't expect me to take anything in this thread seriously after laughing as hard as I did at seeing that picture and remembering that suicidal, obese scum with an contemptible fetish for drawn girls exist. Thanks for the ego boost pal.