Why Do Men Have Nipples?
Why keep nipples without breastfeeding? An accessible guide to development, evolution, mechanics, mathematics, culture, and the philosophy of function.
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Reading Shuzo Kuki Through Distance and Contingency
Read Shuzo Kuki’s philosophy as a theory of distance, encounter, existence, and form.
Sirat in the Quran: straight path, bridge, and judgment
Sirat first means the Quranic straight path, then becomes the bridge over Hell in hadith and creed. This report separates scripture, doctrine, history, and art.
Language Games, Intentionality, and LLMs
This report compares participant, linguistic intentionality, asymmetric communication, and grounding-skeptical accounts of LLMs.
Is comprehensive understanding diluted by paraphrasing?
Based on Polanyi's comprehensive understanding, we will examine the advantages and disadvantages of making tacit knowledge and value judgments explicit by paraphrasing them from the perspectives of philosophy, cognitive science, and practice.
Polanyi, Wittgenstein, and tacit knowledge
Compare Polanyi's tacit knowledge and Tractatus Logico-Philosophico from the perspective of what can be said/shown, practical understanding, and comprehensive understanding.