“It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s writing. I don’t think the novels of Jane Austen could have been written by a man nor the stories of Ernest Hemingway by a woman, and in the same way I believe the author of the James Tiptree stories is male.” ThinkingMenWayWritingBelieveHas BeensStoriesI BelieveNovelWrittenTheoryFemaleMalesAbsurdMasculineCould Have BeenJaneAusten Author:Robert Silverberg
“The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being - that is, in terms of concrete stage images. This is the difference between the approach of the philosopher and that of the poet; the difference, to take an example from another sphere, between the idea of God in the works of Thomas Aquinas or Spinoza and the intuition of God in those of St. John of the Cross or Meister Eckhart - the difference between theory and experience.” HumansIdeasTermDifferencesConditionsStageExamplePoetTheoryApproachCrossesPhilosopherIntuitionTheatreArguingAbsurdSpheresHuman ConditionConcreteAbsurditySpinozaSt John Of The Cross Book:The Theatre of the Absurd Source: The Theatre of the Absurd
“The 'harmonious world' theory .. will help dispel doubts in the international community about China's continued development and refute the absurd 'China threat theory'.” WorldHelpingCommunityDoubtTheoryDevelopmentThreatInternationalChinaAbsurdAbsurdityHarmoniousInternational Community Author:Ye Xiaowen
“The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.” MenDoeImportantPiecesHe ManTheoryRaisesPreparedEqualityBreadAbsurdCornInference Author:Ida Tarbell
“The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his attitude towards the absurd consequences of the theories which he accepts, is indeterminate in many ways, ambiguous, and never fully separated from the historical background . This material is always contaminated by principles which he does not know and which, if known, would be extremely hard to test.” IfsKnowsWayDoeHardWould BeLawResultsAttitudeKnownAcceptingPrinciplesMaterialsTheoryConsequenceTestsScientistPrejudiceHistoricalTechniqueBackgroundsAbsurdMathematicalAmbiguous Book:Against Method Source: Against Method
“I don't think Kant's theory looks bad to people except insofar as they have misunderstood it (for instance, as heartless and ironheaded, or as committed to an absurd metaphysical conception of freedom that violates Kant's own philosophy).” PeopleThinkingLooksPhilosophyTheoryCommittedAbsurdInstanceConceptionMetaphysicalMisunderstoodHeartless Author:Allen W. Wood
“Some critics thought the ontology and theory of qualities absurd. No one had ever seen these little atoms, and furthermore, how could their mere arrangement produce a noisy, colourful, world in which day followed night and animals generated their own kind? Instead of a world created, cared, for and supervised by supernatural persons, the Epicureans appeared to the theologians to be assigning everything to chance. The latter were appalled by Lucretius's view of religion as cruel and oppressive and by the Epicurean insistence that death is the end of all experience.” WorldKindLittlesPersonsEndsNightChanceAnimalViewsQualityProduceTheoryMereCriticsAbsurdLatterAtomsArrangementsTheologianNoisyInsistenceOntologyColourfulEpicurean Author:Catherine Wilson