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ExplicitImplicity or ExpImp is a user of the English Wikipedia since 2002. It registered this account on September 11, 2006.

As of January 27, 2009 it made 476 edits in the Main namespace. , with 95% edit summary usage.

This user is studying English, Linguistics and Philosophy at University, already having obtained a degree in the former two.

i'm searching for truth. but i haven't even decided where to look for it. but since reading first derrida and later camus i have begun to evaluate the idea that there is no truth out there.

sometimes i am like a little child, crying out: "i want my noumenon!!" of course this hasn't worked as of yet.

i like the wikipedia
i consider the wikipedia to be some kind of "book of books". wikipedia accounts for 85% of my online time. and no other site in the world has such great pages.


 * Understatement
 * Pataphor - unfortunately this page was deleted by an admin,referring to a consensus.
 * Chronemics

on freedom or something like it
There is this myth about freedom of speech being a nice comfortable idea, well it's not. It's annoying, appalling and sometimes even dangerous. But the opposite is way worse.
 * --BayImg FAQ

on truth
One day a strange man came into town and claimed to be the prophet.

The townspeople didn't believe him. "Proof it to us!" they said.

The man pointed to the wall surrounding their settlement:

"If this wall will speak to you... will you believe me?"

"By God, we will believe you." they said. The Man moved towards the wall,

stretched out his hand and shouted: "Speak, oh great wall!"

And then, after a while the wall began to speak:

"This man is no prophet. He is fooling you, he is a liar."
 * --Zülfü Livaneli

god could have used an infinite number of ways to create the world, there is no way we can figure that out, so if we find a way that works, we take that to be the correct way, the way it actually happened.
 * --Principles of Philosophy, Descartes, as given by Prof. Steven Goldman

once you are absolutely sure what makes Smith tick, you know everything about him you would care to know, look into the mirror and say three times: "i may be wrong, i may be very wrong, i may be hopelessly wrong". and you'll probably be right.
 * --Prof. Daniel N. Robinson, talking about the "Witch craze"

we think that scientific methods tend to settle matters once and for all. but there may be some later reckoning according to which our confidence here was exaggerated and perhaps misplaced. so let's always keep in mind that although history inevitably leads up to us, it does not end with us.
 * --Prof. Daniel N. Robinson on "Knowledge or Certainty"

the planets don't move in ellipsis. and not because of some cute little reason like - "well, they flutter" or "it's a little off". an ellipse is a closed curve. but because the planets are moving around the sun, and the entire solarsystem is also moving, the planets never return to the same place. it is only if you say: let's pretend that the sun is fixed that the planets move in ellipsis. so even saying that the planets move in elliptical orbits is a peculiar illustration of how, as we were warned by Fleck how we reify our classification schemes. how we make facts out of assumptions.
 * --Steven Goldman

For one could always say "let us calculate" and judge properly, insofar as reason and the data can furnish us the means to do so.
 * --Gottfried Leibniz on his "Characteristica universalis"

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
 * --Sir John Harrington

On Meaning
"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." "The question ist, whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is, who is to be master - that's all."
 * --not quite Lewis Carroll

On Science
I have not as yet been able to discover the reason for these properties of gravity from phenomena, and I do not feign hypotheses. For whatever is not deduced from the phenomena must be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, or based on occult qualities, or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. In this philosophy particular propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction.
 * --Isaac newton

On Life
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despite, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
 * --Aischylos, from Agamemnon 179-183

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
 * --Rabindranath Tagore

Thus the forest of uplifted arms demanding work becomes ever thicker, while the arms themselves become ever thinner.
 * --Karl Marx

The solutions all are simple... after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
 * --Robert M. Pirsig

We do not know to-day whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.
 * --Ralph Waldo Emerson

On God, Religion and the Priest
If God is willing, but not able, he is not omnipotent.

If God is able, but not willing, he is malevolent.

If God is both willing and able, then whence cometh evil ?

If God is neither willing, nor able, then why call him god ? --possibly Epicure, maybe not

Religion is thought

by the common man to be true,

by the wise man to be false,

by the rulers to be useful. --maybe Seneca the Younger

There is in every village a torch: The School teacher.

And an extinguisher: The Priest. --possibly Victor Hugo

i like quotes that sound great
Thy dawn, O Master of the World, thy dawn;

For thee the sunlight creeps across the lawn,

For thee the ships are drawn down to the waves,

For thee the markets throng with myriad slaves.

For thee the hammer on the anvil rings,

For thee the sabre of the warrior sings.

For thee the waggons of the world are drawn—

The ebony of night, the red of dawn!
 * --James Elroy Flecker/Richard Maibaum - Hybrid Poem

even more...

Axemakers

 * Aristoteles apo Andros
 * Johannes Gutenberg
 * Nicolaus Copernicus
 * Andreas Vesalius
 * Gottfried Leibniz & Isaac Newton
 * Denis Papin
 * Immanuel Kant, imho the foremost philosopher
 * Nikola Tesla
 * Herman Hollerith
 * Bertolt Brecht
 * Luis von Ahn

Artists

 * Jan van Eyck
 * Giovanni Piranesi
 * Sandro Botticelli
 * Katsushika Hokusai
 * Rene Magritte
 * Lazar Lissitzky
 * Maurits Escher
 * Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
 * John Lautner
 * Ken Adam

Travels
I have visited the following parts of the World

Northern Europe
🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇱🇺 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 (still existing at the time)

Southern Europe
🇭🇺 🇦🇹 🇮🇹 🇸🇲 🇪🇸  🇹🇷   ( at the time)

Asia
🇹🇷

Americas
🇺🇸 🇨🇺

other B/S

 * Sandbuechse
 * nock zoo toon
 * Principles of Philosophy
 * - Six Degrees of Separation on Wikipedia