“This paper wants to know whether it would exist, or could exist, in worlds in which I didn’t write it. Before we can answer this question, we first of all have to inquire as to what, exactly, this paper is. After exploring two forms of Platonism (pure and impure), and a theory that defines literary […]
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Gambling: Plato + Socratic etymology of her riddle’s answer
This study explains gambling in a way no other study has managed. We believe this paper features the first appearance — anywhere, ever — of the phrase “an analysis of the foot wager of the Sphinx“: “Souls/Soles of Signs — Tell Totems and the Sphinx Wager,” Darryl A. Smith [pictured here], University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Center […]