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Fiction The Death of Pythagoras Bruce Pennington tells us how Pythagoras became a has-bean, while another Bruce Pennington drew the portraits…. Shamanistic shyster or intellectual innovator, creative ...

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Articles Why False Beliefs Are Not Always Bad Sally Latham argues that sometimes it’s better to be wrong.. It is a fairly common assumption that factually correct beliefs are to be strived for and ...

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Nietzsche undermines any self-deceiving idealism about love through the exposure of its less attractive motivations. In section 14 of The Gay Science, entitled ‘The things people call love’, Nietzsche ...