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The Big List of Existing Things

12 September, 20174 April, 2018 ~ John Nerst ~ 11 Comments

We feel there should be a clear answer to the question of whether some thing exists or not. I argue that often there isn't, because follwing our self-contradictory intuitions leads us to weird places. Instead we should interpret talk about what exists as talk about how we best represent the world.
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Partial Derivatives and Partial Narratives

2 June, 201619 December, 2018 ~ John Nerst ~ 16 Comments

Just like we can take partial derivatives of mathematical functions, we can tell partial stories about the world and how it works. The problem is that stories always leave a lot out, and those leftovers might form someone else’s story.
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