Tag: philosophy
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Bad Thinking: Yeah, But That’ll Never Happen, So…
Recently, I was debating a hot topic with a brother of mine and he responded with that classic line: “Yeah, that sounds great, but that’ll never happen, so what do you really think?” He was accusing me of using this informal fallacy often called “wishful thinking” or “the Nirvana fallacy.” I was raging against the…
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Cartography: Our Picture of Us
The Cartographer’s Guild encouraged me in my map making. Since then I noticed how maps disinter our understanding of the world. Maps do not show us where things are or where things were. They reveal who we are and how we think. Take Hecataeus: He’s missing a couple two or three continents. His world is…