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This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the ...

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Michel FoucaultThe Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

We aren't human.""Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-som...

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If a curiously selective plague came along and killed all people of intermediate height, 'tall' and ...

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Richard DawkinsThe Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal conce...

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Sigmund FreudGeneral Psychological Theory

It may be worth while to illustrate this view of classification, by taking the case of languages. If...

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