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Public Executions
One of the most dreadful memories from my childhood in Iran are the announcements about public executions. I was fortunate enough to not have actually watched any of them, but I remember the more curious ones of my classmates actually planning on attending some, and then speaking with so much horror about them afterwards. This…
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I Think, Therefore I Am. I Won, Therefore I Rule
René Descartes had famously used the statement “I think, therefore I am,” as a starting point for his philosophical inquiries, where he used the act of thinking as an evidence for the existence of the thinker. While most, if not all, philosophical statements are abstractions based on observations and not proven facts, their acceptance and…