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“Comedy is such a private thing; it's not always easy to translate something funny from one language to another. It's very personal and cultural as well.”

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Alessandra Mastronardi

Alessandra Mastronardi, born on February 18, 1986, is an individual whose identity and profession remain unclear. more

“Sellars's "myth of Jones" is deployed against what Sellars calls "the myth of the categorial Given": the idea that to be aware of something is to be aware of it as something. This short circuit between "awareness of" and "awareness as" inhibits the project of self-understanding because it perpetuates the assumption that there is a point where being and knowing coincide.”

Awareness Myth Assumption Short Circuit

Author:Ray Brassier

“Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.”

Ifs Next Stuck Beatty

Author:Val Kilmer

“I think Enlightenment as an epistemic ideal involves rejecting the appeal to a fundamental stratum of non-conceptual self-evidence.”

Thinking Enlightenment

Author:Ray Brassier

“Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we now routinely interpret states of anxiety, excitement, or depression in terms of physiological factors involving levels of serotonin, adrenalin, or blood sugar. To say that the characterization of thinking has a normative function that is irreducible to neurophysiological processing is not to say that our extant classification of the forms of thinking is incorrigible.”

Thinking Term Anxiety Everyday Psychological Excitement Mania Characterization Psychoanalytic

Author:Ray Brassier

“Correlationism rejects metaphysical realism understood as the claim that the way the world is does not depend on how we take things to be. It also rejects the Cartesian corollary, i.e., the claim that the way the mind is does not depend on the way the world is.”

World Mind Metaphysical

Author:Ray Brassier

“When we export energy, we export American influence overseas. As I travel around the world, I know that there are people that want to buy energy from America.”

People World Energy Influence

Author:John Barrasso

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