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| author | phoebe jenkins <pjenkins@tula-health.com> | 2024-08-21 22:54:46 -0400 |
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| committer | phoebe jenkins <pjenkins@tula-health.com> | 2024-08-21 22:54:46 -0400 |
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clean up some probably misguided ideas about document splitting
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diff --git a/essays/philosophical_reflections.tex b/essays/philosophical_reflections.tex index cf136a6..091cd7a 100644 --- a/essays/philosophical_reflections.tex +++ b/essays/philosophical_reflections.tex @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\Chp{Philosophical Reflections I} +\chapter{Philosophical Reflections I} \begin{enumerate}[label=\textbf{\Alph*.}, wide, nosep, itemsep=1em] \item If language is nonsense, why do we seem to have it? How do these intricate pseudo-significant structures arise? If beliefs are self-deceiving, why are they there? Why are we so skilled in the self-deceptive reflex that I find in language and belief? Why are we so fluent in thinking in self-vitiating concepts? Granting that language and belief are mistakes, are mistakes of this degree of complexity made for nothing? Is not the very ability to concoct an apparently significant, self-vitiating and self-deceiving structure a transcendent ability, one that points to something non-immediate? Do not these conceptual gymnastics, even if self-vitiating, make us superior to the mindless animals? |