She lives in Oakland, CA on unceded Ohlone land with her wife and a positively alarming amount of books. I’m sure all of you (myself included) are master Logicians when it comes to nonsense and wilful ignorance.

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A. in Creative Writing and Musical Theatre from the University of Southern California and an MLIS from San Jose State University. e Being) is, and one cannot speak of something that ‘is not’, for who can recognise something that does not exist? In ‘Sophie’s World’ by Jostein Gaarder, the philosopher tells Sophie she must think like a child to be a true philosopher. More of her written work can also be found in Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy edited by Kelly Jensen, and, if you’re feeling spicy, in Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 4 edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel. Heraclitus spoke of change, and said that opposites do not exclude each other – as Parmenides argued – but in fact complement each other.

Well, then,” the Cat went on, “you see a dog growls when it’s angry, and wags it’s tail when it’s pleased.

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Despite all the rules normally associated at a tea party and the pleasant socialising also associated with it, the tea party is nothing but a function of chaos in ‘Alice in Wonderland’! For not being a very lengthy story, there are so many fantastic Alice in Wonderland quotes to be found among this beloved tale by Lewis Carroll.

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In Alice in Wonderland, society and its justice system seem to be governed by fools and the result is abuse and oppression. If we want to take it a step further, we can consider the dormouse as a symbol of the proletariat so often mentioned by Karl Marx. Parmenides of Elea was probably the most radical Pre-Socratic philosopher as he relied, for the most part, entirely on his reason.Through the eyes of society, one who questions – even and perhaps especially the seemingly basic things – may be labelled ‘mad’. I think you might do something better with the time,’ she said, `than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers. If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page. Fear is a prevalent form of social control that is REALLY hard to break – even though, as Alice claims, they are ‘only a pack of cards’. Heraclitus was so deep that some other ancient guy who thought a lot said ‘it would take a Delian deep sea diver to get to the bottom of him’.