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transsexuality among the Marsh Arabs
There is a short account in Wilfred Thesiger’s book The Marsh Arabs, of the civilized way in which one society deals with transsexuality. “One…
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failures of communication 6
Misunderstanding Parfit
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subject and predicate
‘three thousand years of important error’
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Sex in the Russell Hotel
I was having a drink in the Russell Hotel in Russell Square (The Russell Hotel has changed its name but it will always be the Russell Hotel)[1] with…
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Red Mary
this may interest or amuse those who know Frank Jackson’s story about Mary and the black-and-white room
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failure of communication 5
Joseph Butler offered a brilliant characterization of moral sense, considering it ‘as a sentiment of the understanding, or as a perception of the heart…
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nineteenth-century teletransportation
“There was no reason why matter could not be telegraphed, or to be more etymologically accurate, ‘telepomped’. It was only necessary to effect at one…
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some possibly useful bits & pieces
observations, mostly philosophical, mostly small

some possibly useful bits & pieces

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