Episode 764 - Monday, July 21, 1980

Standard Countertop Position Chekhov's Lasagna is a dramatic principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed; elements should not appea...

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Garfield's belly as depicted yesterday and today, side by side GARFIELD:Let us from point to point this story know,To make the even truth in pleasure flow.To JON ARBUCKLEIf thou be'st yet a fresh un...

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This week's podcast was narrowly rescued from the brink of death by noted American hero and Robert Goulet enthusiast Danny Gibson. You can follow him on Twitter @FasterDuckworth.And a good thing too b...

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If what is "self-evident" and this alone--"the covert judgements of common reason" (Kant)--is to become and remain the explicit theme of out analysis (as "the business of philosophers"), then the appe...

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2. The concept of "being" is indefinable. This conclusion was drawn from its highest universality. And correctly so--if definitio fit per genus proximum et differentiam specificam [if "definition is a...

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1. "Being" is the most "universal" concept: to on esti katholou malista panton. Illud quod primo cadit sub apprehensione est ens, cuius intellectus includitur in omnibus, quaecumque quis apprehendit. ...

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At the beginning of this inquiry the prejudices that constantly instill and repeatedly promote the idea that a questioning of being is not needed cannot be discussed in detail. They are rooted in anci...

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