On year one of my Uni, during “Introduction to philosophy” course, one of my professors presented us with a nice idea1 - a thought should be able to fit one page of normalised A4 letterprint. Back then it meant 1800 characters (as there were 30 lines of 60 characters). This is quite short - a page you read right now already surpassed 1000 characters!
I’d like to train my mind to certain level of acuteness, and I think paraphrasing great ideas in this fashion might be a right thing to do – it would serve not only as an exercise, but maybe also bring some value to Others looking for time-effective way of understanding things which got me interested, without resorting to use of language machines.
I might be adding some internal links (and internal links only!) to serve as a main hub for this endeavour.
Own reflections
v - meditation on values, virtues and veganism
Notes and abstracts – great Thinkers
Getting it Right - Harry Frankfurt Richard Rorty
Footnotes
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a meta-idea, someone might say :) ↩