February 2011
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Balancing one's life
What is balance? Most of us hear people telling us, “you need to balance your life.” Also, there seems to be the need to keep everything in one’s life balance. But what does it mean?
I suggest that balance, wherein everything is equal is impossible and something that you do not want. Balance, in one’s life, at this point means that our emotional, intellectual,...
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whakahekeheke: Logic 101: Performative... →
whakahekeheke:
“Performative contradiction” is a complicated-sounding term (coined by Habermas) for a very simple and common sense notion that goes at least as far back as Aristotle. It refers to a particularly fundamental kind of self-contradiction.
You commit performative contradiction when you make a…
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“I posted your face on tumblr and lost all my followers.”