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Today was a typical day: a gust of wind sort of upset everything.

July 20, 2025

Félix Vallotton Le Coup de Vent 1894 A coup in French is literally a ‘blow’ or ‘gust’ but, of course, we know it best in the term ‘Le Coup d’État‘, such as that event on 18 Brumaire where Napoleon took control of French revolutionary forces and thus the state. it has been forever after the … More Today was a typical day: a gust of wind sort of upset everything.

My token day? Why no day need be the same as another.

August 1, 2023

Was today typical? There is a distinction in the philosophy of mind between type and token identity. Whereas it was once thought there must be events in the brain the brain that are exactly the same, if expressed in different media, as an event in the mind, like a thought, modern identity theory claims that … More My token day? Why no day need be the same as another.