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Eventually the parasite loses by winning.

Daniel Brasso,  The Infinite Regress.

It never occurs to them that they are the shallow ones.

Cedric Plumm,  All Roads Lead.

Begging the question has nothing to do with “begging” and nothing to do with a “question.”  It concerns shabby reasoning, and that is all.

Alex Twist,  A Primer of Posturing.

The Nihilist kneels before nothing.

Godfrey Tooke,  Collected Aphorisms.

George stumbled into the back of the lecture hall, a little later than usual.  The subject of the talk, apparently, was “the Future of Reasoning.”

Dell Arbogast,  The Null Hypothesis and Other Stories.

“Let’s introduce change, Linda.  Yes.  And let it change and change and change.  Where is the pathology in that?”

Morris Dees,  The Gray Lady.

Modernity hinges on a kind of laziness.

Chalmers Van Nest,  The Trivial Quadrivium.

Modernism has always been about the artist. What is he thinking?  What is he feeling?  What is he seeing?  The artwork itself stood as a sort of “proof.”

Crispin Trove,  The Viewer as Pest.

The aphorism is not an opinion or an argument.  It is a projectile.

Nathaniel Bumppo,  The Final Word.

Since video is so simple, why not record every moment for the rest of your life?  Perhaps someone in posterity will want to spend his life in viewing it all.

Cedric Plumm,  My Name Is Cynthia.