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Let’s talk about ideas. I have ideas, you have ideas. We all, apparently, have ideas. We did not always believe this. The term “idea” used to just refer to the Platonic Ideas, the heavenly forms that existed in a realm of thought and that expressed the fundamental nature of objects. The Idea of Man was…

Count to infinity. I’ll wait. Oh, you’re back. That was quick. I actually didn’t expect to hear from you again. Oh, you counted to ‘1’ and stopped? That seems like cheating. I know that the distance between ‘0’ and ‘1’ is infinite, in the sense that you can always divide the space further, but that…

The third Superman film sets the Man of Steel against a rich villain, Ross Webster, who has a gal Friday named Lorelei Ambrosia. Lorelei is usually portrayed as ditzy in the film, but in one remarkable scene she sits alone reading Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. She isn’t just pretending to read it, either;…