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Intuition and Logic

Posted by Yu.Ku. on Tuesday, November 1, 2011, In : Issue6

The other day a young female asked me how I knew practically everything about the matters I had never never heard of. It sounded like she was perplexed at the things. I murmured something about intuition and she couldn't realize it either. In fact I believe more in logic that brings me to the intuition. So I decided to investigate the notion of "intuition" or logic this Tuesday and its reference to sexes. I came across an article by Robin Turner, a scholar, linguist and philosopher from Bilke...
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Mission Of Humour or Humour 99 years ago.

Posted by Yu.Ku. on Monday, October 24, 2011, In : Issue5

Agnes Repplier is one of my beloved writers who is forgotten nowadays and out of print, unfortunately. I've decided to commemorate her in memory of those people who don't know her at all and those who keep good reminiscences of her and admire her talent and genius. This essay of hers was published in October, 1912 - exactly 99 years ago and concerns humour - American humour in particular. Did it change since 1912? I consider humour to an essential aspect of any language and those "serious" wr...
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