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Justin E. H. Smith
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Paris | Cullman Center Fellow, New York Public Library, 2019-20 | Crex crex
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Justin E. H. Smith Jan 31
Long before it existed as real technology, the internet was already (i) being conceptualised by analogy to living organic systems; (ii) extremely attractive to grifters.
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Justin E. H. Smith Jan 29
"The good [bonum] is said to be bonificative [bonificativum], bonificable [bonificabile], and bonificating [bonificans]; the great [magnum] is said to be magnificative [magnum], magnificable [magnificabile], and magnificent [magnificans]; and so on."
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Justin E. H. Smith Jan 27
Replying to @consultify
I don't think you're getting things mixed up. The Sophistical Refutations concern the rules of rhetoric. Anyhow I only post this stuff to shed followers who are here for the wrong reasons. I've lost two already!
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Justin E. H. Smith Jan 27
Replying to @consultify
It's Pierre Gassendi, Syntagma Philosophicum, explicating Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations.
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Justin E. H. Smith Jan 27
"Loci 'from the form of the expression' are such as when, having conceded that you chewed and swallowed what you bought for lunch, and that you bought raw meat, someone concludes that you ate raw meat."
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Justin E. H. Smith Jan 27
"Loci 'from accent' are such as when someone infers that, because in hunting after a hare [lepŏrem] the hunter runs, so too the orator, in hunting after a clever line [lepōrem] in his speech, also runs."
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Justin E. H. Smith Jan 27
"Loci 'from composition' are such as when, from the fact that it is possible that a sitting person walks, or that a non-writing person writes, one infers that it can happen that someone who is sitting is walking, or that someone who is not writing is writing."
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Justin E. H. Smith Jan 27
I'll be in conversation with Jessica Riskin (Stanford) at the Commonwealth Club in Mill Valley, this Wednesday, January 29, at 7 pm. If you're in Northern California, come join us.
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Justin E. H. Smith Jan 19
Alexinus of Elea, Eubulides of Miletus...
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Justin E. H. Smith Jan 19
Replying to @elisa_freschi
I probably shouldn't have posted this, but my enthusiasm overtook me. It's in fact from a (great) work of fiction that I'm currently vetting. I can't say more about it, but will be able to soon.
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Justin E. H. Smith Jan 18
"While in a number of cases dvāra-bhūtena [door-being] is translated into French as gardien du seuil [guardian of the threshold], it is most frequently rendered by a charmingly awkward portmanteau, porte-être, with resonances of both the porte-bagage and of the peut-être."
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Justin E. H. Smith Jan 18
Oh boy that's a huge topic, prob. more suitable for The Point than Twitter ( ?). Briefly: it's still impt. I often fail, but the failure usually seems to have more to do with a sincere inability to discern the line between honest discretion and dishonest withholding.
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Justin E. H. Smith Jan 18
Replying to @AgnesCallard
The experiment's been a bit hair-raising, for me, but gratifying in the end. Surely soon enough the 'real-time review' will become the standard.
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Justin E. H. Smith Jan 18
Replying to @AgnesCallard
I've already got rid of the FitBit (it's a Google-owned surveillance device). The other reforms are still in place. (I honestly don't know whether they are rational, alas.)
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Justin E. H. Smith Jan 18
Replying to @AgnesCallard
So interesting to me to see which parts you choose to quote and comment on! Truly, once we release a book into the world, it no longer belongs to us.
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Justin E. H. Smith Jan 18
Replying to @AgnesCallard
That sounds right to me, and yes, I wish I had considered it too.
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Justin E. H. Smith Jan 18
😂
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Agnes Callard Jan 18
"Like police detectives who go undercover and become too attached to the trappings of the criminal underworld to ever return from it, so too are logicians drawn in by sophisms.” (Currently enjoying *Irrationality*)
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Justin E. H. Smith Jan 13
A thoughtful and generous review of Irrationality, from
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Five Books Jan 12
“Figures who belong to the history of science prior to sometime in the 18th century were certain kinds of philosophers” Justin E. H. Smith () describes the real, often untold history of philosophy:
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