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Gene Washington

2014

Pomplona

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On The Benefit Of Sleeping In: An Exercise In Epistemological Irony, Gene Washington Jan 2014

On The Benefit Of Sleeping In: An Exercise In Epistemological Irony, Gene Washington

Gene Washington

Irony, as an Archimedean Point, is perhaps the most efficient way to reveal human delusions and downright stupidities. Three factors go into the construction of such a Point: 1) a standpoint independent of the subject; 2) a view of the whole, not the part, of the subject and 3) an inside view of its agency—who and what brought the subject into being and how did it terminate. "ON THE BENEFIT OF SLEEPING IN: AN EXERCISE IN EPISTEMOLOGICAL IRONY" exemplifies the above.