/lit/ - Literature

>The twist was cool

>>20224409
>food just magically reappears on shelves with zero impact to the bottom line

>>19292906
> “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

THAT LITTERALLY CAN'T BE TRUE. IT CAN'T BE AN AGE OF WISDOM AND AN AGE OF FOOLISHNESS. THAT'S A LOGICAL CONTRADICTION. CHARELS DICKENS WAS A FUCKING RETARD.

>>19070980
You are never going to make it. Put down Heidegger and go play with your crayons.

There are many benefits. Do you say the same thing about appreciating visual art? Consider it an education in aesthetics. Clever works also push the limits of language to express complicated senses that would never arise in technical contexts.

Ultimately, only NPC STEM insectoids ask these types of questions.

>>18801500
>So, as in India where the renaissance in Vedanta and Brahmanism among thinkers like Gaudapada, Shankara, and Ramanuja is only understandable as a reaction to and assimilation of centuries of Buddhist thought and institutions

>>16876029
I already know you’re an NPC (and of course this claim is going to make you explode in self-righteous anger and contempt of me), so I’m not making this response directly for your own benefit, this response is actually for the benefit of other young naive lurkers here on 4chan like I used to be as a teen, for instance.

I just want to say that YOU ARE A FUCKING NPC KEK. You are the perfect little docile slave willingly taking it up the ass from the New World Order and calling anyone who dares question mainstream narratives “crazy.” Maybe Reddit is more to your taste.

>durrrrr “Limits to Growth” by the Club of Rome?? I’ve never heard of that ... and sure Bill Gates has admitted he wants to work to reduce population growth but he’s only doing it through nice happy fluffy means like promoting contraceptives and better access to medical care in 3rd world countries so that decreased infant mortality leads to the stupid Africans having less children ... they would never do stuff like put AIDs in the vaccines, right? There’s no scandals about Gates-funded oral polio vaccines causing paralysis, right? It’s not like there’s a huge complex of deluded journalists and their genuinely sociopathic controllers creating a Baudrillardian hyper-reality simulacrum where all information about a potentially genocidal sociopathic NWO is denied as “fake news” and “debunked by independent fact-checkers,” right?

>>15869261
>stop posting this uncle tom

>>15727212
>Nietzsche never said anything of value. Try to quote something he wrote that is not retarded or simply gibberish

>>15685763
>"Nihilism" is not a thing, you fucking moron.

>In the 1960s and 70s, the attempts of Donald Davidson and others to construct a formal theory of meaning based on Alfred Tarski’s formal definition of truth eventually led to the development of possible worlds semantics by David Lewis. Consistent with the Quinean insight that meaning is connected to holistic worldviews or, in more metaphysical terms, world-states, possible worlds semantics defines important logical concepts such as validity, soundness and completeness, as well as concepts that earlier logics were incapable of handling—such as possibility and necessity—in terms of total descriptions of a way that some worlds or all worlds might be/have been. For example, proposition p is necessary, if p is true in all possible worlds. Thus, despite its formalism, possible world semantics approximates some aspects of traditional metaphysics that earlier analytic philosophy eschewed.

>With the advent of possible worlds semantics, attention shifted from the notion of meaning to that of reference. The latter has to do explicitly with the language-world connection, and so has an overtly metaphysical aspect. In the 1970s, direct reference theories came to dominate the philosophy of language. Developed independently by Saul Kripke and Ruth Barcan Marcus, a direct reference theory claims that some words—particularly proper names—have no meaning, but simply serve as “tags” (Marcus’ term) or “rigid designators” (Kripke’s term) for the things they name. Tagging or rigid designation is usually spelled-out in terms of possible worlds: it is a relation between name and thing such that it holds in all possible worlds. This then provides a linguistic analog of a metaphysical theory of identity the likes of which one finds in traditional “substance” metaphysics such as that of Aristotle. With the restrictions characteristic of earlier analytic philosophy removed, these positions in the philosophy of language made for an easy transition into metaphysics proper.

>>15573186
>REEEEEEEE SHE’S NOT REACTIONARY ENOUGH

>>15541581
I bought this book years ago so I can learn chess but I just can't get past the moves like d3 to f7. How the fuck do you remember letter/number is on the board?

>>15506980
>I've never smoked a cigarette in my life but let me lecture you about how it has no effect

>>15350277
>fucking kids/young teens is exploitative and almost always traumatizing

>>15271852
Weak
Lmao

>>15274359
>I could easily write GR myself if I had the time and I was such a loser

>>14572801
>(wrongly)

>>14537586

>This is a horrible appropriation of this meme format, kys.

>>14362988
>Do you think Melville's life as a sailor around the world helped on his writing?

>mfw I’ve read a total of 9 pages of Hegel’s Phenomenology of The Mind

Any tips on how I can make this shit at least semi comprehensible, or is Hegel just a meme?

>>13991222
OH NO NO NO NO NO NO

>>13844097