Category: crealectics
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Cognidiversity and Creativity
The French mathematician Jean-Pierre Aubin writes: “Developing a discipline is not enough […]: what is also—and especially—needed is to seek within disciplines the motivations to forge new ways of understanding in each one. Because ultimately, understanding means the “validation of metaphors” linking knowledge already acquired with new perceptions of the world. To achieve this, we…
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Woman’s transgender views a “philosophical belief”, EAT rules
June 2021: “A woman who had her contract terminated because of tweets expressing her views on gender was entitled to express those views as they constituted a philosophical belief under the Equality Act, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled.“ Please note I am posting this information neutrally and for the sake of research, because I…
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Is Your Philosophy of Life Legally Robust?
Below is an example of how the capacity to articulate and build a cogent, serious, coherent philosophical conviction might give you a legal advantage in the future, when needed. In 2019, in Conisbee v Crossley Farms Limited and others, an Employment Tribunal rejected that vegetarianism was capable of being a philosophical belief within the meaning…
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Derrida on the Creal
Derrida did not have access to the signifier Creal (Créel in French) therefore he could not do better than distinguish two types of Real. Here his real as non-negative inpossible is a formulation of the Creal, while the objective and dicretizable real is what should be called the Real. This Derrida quote is taken from…
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