Christophe Rigon · @ki_cog
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"Such an alternative conception of life has far-reaching consequences for the epistemology of life sciences, for it requires it to reconsider not only its object of inquiry (...), but also, since scientists themselves are living beings, the nature of its epistemic practices."


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Damon Young · @damonyoung
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'But it seems to me that emotion and its expression are almost the same thing.’ The fictional Stephen Maturin, channeling Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

Patrick O’Brian, Master and Commander, in The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels, 5 vols (London: HarperCollins, 2016), i, p. 374.

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Ralph Brooker · @RalphBrooker
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Just a thought. of .
If my arm, say, just resting on the table, is not () next to the cup on the table in the same way as the cup is next to the pen on the table, does the converse hold: is the cup next to my arm?

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Ralph Brooker · @RalphBrooker
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One of the most intriguing and engaging passages: ,
Roughly: my arm resting on the table is not next to the cup as the cup is next to the ashtray
of

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Jane Finlay · @jfinlay
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