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My Philosophy Project Important Books

Linguistics - Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky - Current Issues in Linguistic Theory by Noam Chomsky - Aspects of the Theory of Syntax by Noam Chomsky - Cartesian Linguistics by Noam Chomsky - Language and Mind by Noam Chomsky - Reflections on Language by Noam Chomsky - The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker (have) - Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things by George Lakoff - Gödel, Escher, bach by Douglass Hofstadter - Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure - Language: A Study of Speech by Edward Sapir - Language, Truth, and Reality by Benjamin Lee Whorf - A Guide to Worlds Languages by Merrit Ruhlen - Thought and Language by Lev Vygotsky - Language and Thought of the Child by Jean Piaget - Performative/Constative by John Austin - Speech Acts by John Searle - Signs, Language, and Behavior by Charles William Morris - Verbal Art, Verbal Sign, Verbal Time by Roman Jakobson - Prolegomena to a Theory of Language by Louis Hjlemslev - System and Function in Language by M.A.K. Ha...
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Fantastic Writers and Famous Epics I Must Read

Below is a list of authors of the fantastika genre (fantasy, sci-fi, horror, weird fiction, etc.) that I must and will read. - Franz Kafka - Jorge Luis Borges - Italo Calvino - Gabriel García Marquéz - Steven Millhauser - Primo Levi - Kazuo Ishiguro - Haruki Murakami - Tonke Dragt - Rudyard Kipling - H.G. Wells - Clark Ashton Smith - H.P. Lovecraft - Robert E. Howard - Ursula K. LeGuin - Mary Shelley - Frank Herbert - Neil Gaiman - Patrick Rothfuss - George R.R. Martin - Mary Stewart - Isaac Asimov - Robert A. Heinlein - Arthur C. Clark - Philip K. Dick - Ray Bradbury - Jules Verne - Octavia E. Butler - Orson Scott Card - China Miéville - Michael Moorcock - Anne McCaffery - James Tiptree Jr. (penname), Alice Sheldon (real name) - Stephen King - Margaret Atwood - Kurt Vonnegut - George Orwell - Margaret Atwood - Aldous Huxley - Yevgeny Zamyatin - John Wyndham - Walter M. Miller Jr. - Pierce brown - Anthony Burgess - Suzanne Collins - Willia...
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New Inquiries and a Philosophical Reading List

It has been several years since I last posted to this blog. When I did so I did not know as much about philosophy and its philosophers as I do now. Though my ideas about God and the Universe have remained similar to this day, there are some changes to my ideas that I wish to express here. The first is an organization of my main interests in the field of philosophy and (theoretical) linguistics. These are listed below: - Epistemology - Metaphysics - Ethics & Aesthetics - Philosophy of Religion - Political Philosophy - Pedagogy - Theoretical Linguistics, the Philosophy of Language, Logic, and Mathematics I wish to expound upon the last category I mentioned: "Theoretical Linguistics, the Philosophy of Language, Logic, and Mathematics". The reason why I bolded that section is that I believe that these areas of study are the most important for understanding any other field of inquiry, especially in philosophy. I believe this for the simple reason that we investigat...
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She Dropped the Knife - A Story

I will deviate a little from the type of content I have been posting so far, and instead, post a link to a story of mine that I just published on the site "Wattpad". I do not view it as the best of my work by a long shot. One of the reasons why I don't like it so much is that it's a little cheesy and cringey. However, it is not incredibly terrible (at least in my point of view, after all - I was the person who wrote it) and I would like people to know about my first "published" story. I put "published" in quotation marks as it is not really "published" in the sense of being in distributed by a publishing company, it's not official. But even so, I am fairly proud that it's out there! The link to the Wattpad story is here:  https://www.wattpad.com/story/226545025-she-dropped-the-knife . Mario Soresal Hillick (my new pseudonym)
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A Dialogue Between Philo and Sophia in the Living Room

The following is a dialogue between the two young thinkers Philo and Sophia in their living room. Philo:  Look, Sophia! There's a fairy sitting right next to you! Sophia:  No there is not! I don't see the fairy, you must be lying Philo, or making a joke. There is no fairy sitting next to me! Philo: No, I'm telling the truth, there's a fairy sitting right next to you. I can see her! Sophia: You can't be serious, Philo. There isn't any fairy sitting next to me. But then again, I see your face, I see your eyes. I see how serious you look. This is not how you look when you are kidding, Philo, this not how you look when you are lying, Philo. Philo: No, yes, you're right! I'm definitely not lying or kidding right now Sophia, look, oh look! She's flying in the air now, dancing above your head! Twirling, twirling, dancing, dancing. Sophia: You don't seem to be lying or kidding. But how can what you say be true? I cannot see the fairy, I can n...
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On the Nature of Everything and the Cosmoses

My last post was about God, the supernatural being, religion, and the nature of religion, et cetera. I outlined that there are the following types of gods that can exist: 1. The Mathematical God, which is Everything. It can also be called Nature. 2. The Physical God, a which is within the Mathematical God, within Nature and has immense power compared to the power of us humans. Note that there could be several layers to Physical Gods, e.g. there are Physical Gods of even more power than the Physical Gods we know. In this post, I will further my philosophical journey and I will talk about the Nature of Everything. What is the Nature of Everything? In The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, it is 42, but that doesn't tell us much. I've always interpreted that as there is no real answer to the Nature of Everything, us humans have to figure it out and interpret it, so the book can't tell us that. This post details my answer to the Nature of Everything. So what is Everything?...
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God and the Supernatural Being

This is my first post in this blog called "A Younger Philosopher". I am young - I'm a teen. The reason why I called this blog "A Younger Philosopher" instead of "A Young Philosopher" is because those titles weren't available. Some other person took those names so I know I'm not the only teen interested in philosophy! This blog will be dedicated to my ideas and thinking that I have thought about through thinking myself and reading about different philosophers. If I have changed my mind in an idea I will say so in a later post. This first blog post will be dedicated to God, the existence of Him (or Her, or It, depending on what religion), and the non-existence of Him/Her/It. By "ethnicity" I am a Christian - my father is Christian, and my mother had a mother that used to be Christian, and my mother's grandparents were certainly Christian as well. This is why a lot of Christian morals pervades a lot of my thinking, but not all of...
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