Philolol: philosophy is funny

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[I]t disrupts all other brain processes... causing instant death... 'killer yellow,' is fatal

Common sense is anything but common

[T]he stone which by nature moves downwards cannot be habituated to move upwards, not even if one tries to train it by throwing it up ten thousand times

I move my hand first over a marble statue and then over a living man... the live body which receives these operations feels different sensations according to the various places touched... A piece of paper or a feather drawn lightly over any part of our bodies... excites in us an almost intolerable titillation.

A gry is 1/10 of a line, a line is 1/10 of an inch, an inch is 1/10 of a philosophical foot, a philosophical foot is 1/3 of a pendulum, whose diadroms, in the latitude of 45 degrees, are each equal to one second of time to one second of time, or 1/60 of a minute. I have affectedly made use of this measure, here... because, I think, it would be of general convenience

We are got into fairy land, long ere we have reached the last steps of our theory

The example [Putnam] gives is 'cats are animals'. Cats might turn out to be automata, or strange demons... planted by a magician. Suppose they turned out to be a species of demons.