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Love is not Self-Seeking
One of my favorite movies is Marvin’s Room, starring Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Robert De Nero among others. It’s by no means a perfect film. It was obviously adapted from a stage play, and it consequently relies more on dialog than on visual storytelling. But what I like is what it has…
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Fundamental Inequalities
In my youth I was very interested in ideas. Had I known it at the time, I was interested in philosophical questions: How can I know that I know something? How can I be sure what is real and what is not? I read a book by S. I. Hayakawa called Language in Thought and…