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contradiction is the test of reality, as Simone Weil says

Spinoza's stone

Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in motion solely because of its own wish. This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.

 

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Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so—why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us? Wittgenstien PI / 390

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Quentin Skinner: Word and image in the philosophy of Hobbes

in every dream home a heartache

Edward Kienholz, Roxys, 1962.

 Hamilton  Just what is it that makes today’s home’s so different, so appealing? 1956

This is Tomorrow

 Hamilton Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different? 1992

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