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Reason ① versus Reason ② while currently reading Terry Eagleton's Culture and the Death of God Recently I’ve been circling like a vulture… I am a vulture… I am the… i am vulture thermalling above… — the gap. …looking for the signs of death below on the plains of rationality so I can feed my family in the nest, dear…

This first appeared on substack in June 2023. The etymology of the word thing is more interesting than one might think. Originally this usage meant "assembly", and this itself perhaps arose from a metonymic use when referring to the time appointed… —to decide or assemble. Later this happening then came to mean, again metonymically, a specific issue discussed at such…

We often try to impose the world on reality. (this is most marked in case of narcissistic ‘sweorlds’) However this imposition is impossible because the world does not exist, and reality does not and can not care. Still, many of us try, which is the first mistake we make which allows us to learn about reality, but repeated the same…

Reality, evolution and the world Terminology without bounds thingology recapitulating phylogeny Reality and the world If the world is a thing we have made, then all things are in the world. we are human because we have meetings things are meetings not object reality is a late discovery Reasons to be real what the late discovery means Reason is of…

(Some pointers on a non-relativistic position on worlding) Worlding (to world with a self, to self with a world) describes what we do as we live among others. Worlding/selfing arose in evolution, in a reality before we got here. But evolution does not care about what we produce with the worlding urge, just as it does not care about our…