Flannery O'Connor

Died: August 3, 1964, Milledgeville, Georgia, United States

Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American writer and essayist. She wrote two novels and thirty-two short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.

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Latest Post Probability Theory is Nothing but Common Sense Reduced to Calculations by Pierre-Simon Laplace public
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Probably Problematic

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Come on, whoever doubts mathematics as being metaphysical is completely and flat-footed as a materialist.

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Pierre-Simon Laplace

Why Banish the Poets Then?

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Plato's harmonic endorsement of music, musicians and the metaphysics of mathematics is in part due to it's applied geometric imagining. Copycats or imposters of his perfected ideal are not welcome.

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Language Functions as an Antidote to Chaos

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Arthur Schopenhauer
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Existential Adaptations

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David Hume
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Swift Calculated Tyranny

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Niccolò Machiavelli
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Ironic? Yes. Funny? No!

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Samuel Beckett
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Focus the Randomness

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Epicurus
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Deontological Algorithms

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René Descartes
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The Inner Socratic Method

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Walt Whitman
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Are you being sarcastic?

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Flannery O'Connor