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Posted on entry The greatest city in the world. ::: September 11, 2003, 04:33 PM:
Deceivers and false counsellors go into the eighth circle, eighth bolgia.
Posted on entry De Long 1, Nozick 0. ::: July 17, 2003, 05:23 AM:
I picked up a Robert Nozick book at a book sale and mistook it for a piece of crank literature; I bought it for a laugh and was chagrined when I realized that the author was an eminent Harvard prof.

This was the jacket excerpt which confused me:
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"Truth is embedded in space-time and is relative to it. However, truth is not socially relative among human beings (extraterrestrials are another matter). Objective facts are invariant under specified transformations; objective beliefs are arrived at by a process in which biasing factors do not play a significant role. Necessity's domain is contracted (there are no important metaphysical necessities; water is not necessarily H20)"

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