Positivism

… the claim that Popper was a positivist is a common misunderstanding that Popper himself termed the "Popper legend." In fact, he developed his views in stark opposition to and as a criticism of positivism and held that scientific theories talk about how the world really is, not, as positivists claim, about phenomena or observations experienced by scientists. In the same vein, continental philosophers like Theodore Adorno and Jürgen Habermas regarded Popper as a positivist because of his alleged devotion to a unified science. However, this was also part of the "Popper legend"; Popper had in fact been the foremost critic of this doctrine of the Vienna Circle, critiquing it, for instance, in his "Conjectures and Refutations".

Mixed Marriages

We walked out — tentacle in hand
you could sense that the earthlings would not understand
they'd go … nudge nudge … when we got off the bus
saying "it's extra-terrestial — not like us"
— John Cooper Clarke 'I Married A Monster From Outer Space'

Does the universe obey the laws of physics?

No. The laws of physics are descriptions of the universe made by humans, consistent with experience.
They are statements of probability/usuality (modalisation), not commands of obligation (modulation).

Why The War Was Right

Nobody mentions anymore
The weapons of mass destruction,
Except the cockatoo next door
Who got such good instruction.

He screams it to the morning sun
He screams it to the night
Reminding each and every one
Of why the war was right.

You can't re-educate a bird
By spin or sleaze or suction
He simply loves to have it heard,
"Weapons of mass destruction!"

— Michæl Leunig

Stepmother Anagram

steps on = stepson

Dalek Hip Hop: The Ultimate Gangsta Rap Party Mix

Suits

Astral Unravelling

The Fig Of Knowledge

Zoophilia

State Of Origin

… your 50,000-greats-grandfather was Homo erectus.
 — Richard Dawkins

The Thought Occurs

Waste Management

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D'Accord

Surface Tension

We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces.
 — Oscar Wilde

It is only the superficial qualities that last.
 — Oscar Wilde

Cartesian Self-Doubt

Cogito virgo sum.

Cartesian Self-Delusion

Cogito ergot sum.

O Tempora! O Mores!

What people believe prevails over the truth.

 — Sophocles

Whistle-Blowing

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
 — Sophocles

Free Speech

Analytical Thought

Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.

— Peter Medawar

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The Companionship Of The Herd

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
 — Nicholas Boileau

Resistance Is Useful

I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. 

I shall conquer untruth by truth. 

And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

 — Mahatma Gandhi

Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est La Même Chose

This here's the wattle -
the emblem of our land.
You can stick it in a bottle
or you can hold it in your hand.
Amen!
 — Monty Python 'Bruces' (1970)

Oi Oi Oi

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
 — Samuel Johnson

Education > Training

'I think he was a silly little man,' said Councillor Tompkins. 'Worthless, in fact; no use to Society at all.'

'Oh, I don't know,' said Atkins, who was nobody of importance, just a schoolmaster. 'I am not so sure: it depends on what you mean by use.'

'No practical or economic use,' said Tompkins. 'I dare say he could have been made into a serviceable cog of some sort, if you schoolmasters knew your business. But you don't, and so we get useless people of his sort.'

— JRR Tolkien 'Leaf By Niggle'

Intentionality

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
 — Oscar Wilde

Troublesome

There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.

 — Benjamin Franklin

There are no fools so troublesome as those that have a little wit.

 — Sherlock Holmes quoting 'the old French philosopher'