Episode 206: Angel Chasing (Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God")
Very Bad Wizards
What Makes a Table a Table?
Paul Bloom proposed an essentialist theory for cultural artifects. He said that the intentions of the creator are the essence of what it means to be an artifact kind. And i think that that's jus true for a lot of concepts, for most of our concepts.
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