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Top posts this week

The 10 highest-scored posts from the last 7 days — ranking by real score over a week naturally filters out posts that got removed shortly after posting.

PostScorePosted
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality" — Seneca on phantasia, catastrophizing, and whether rationality can override evolutionary anxiety (Letter 13 to Lucilius)7293d ago
“Einstein echoes Wittgenstein, who emphasised in his later work that his aim was to provide ‘the understanding that consists in seeing connections’ – literally, a new way of looking” -- Ray Monk on the scientific and philosophical ideas of Einstein4125d ago
Diogenes the Cynic: The Philosopher Who taught the world how to live2143d ago
Hume suggested the self is a view rather than an entity. Then that means instances of ego dissolution is not the self disappearing. It is the conditions generating the view briefly stopping.462d ago
Waiting for Godot and the Paradox of Meaning: How Inaction Defines the Absurd Condition405d ago
Anarchism and Naturalism184d ago
Recent Work in the Epistemology of Inquiry -- Pablo Hubacher Haerle166d ago
Ethics in 5 pages107d ago
Hylemorphism as a Generalized Research Programme84d ago
Godel and the Limits of LLM Reachable Intelligence27d ago

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