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- Can a recipe teach you to cook? Ryle, written instructions and knowing how
Truck driving has the same split. The manual for my licence told me the stopping distance at fifty-five miles an hour with a full load. Every trainee can recite it. None of them can stop a loaded rig…
- One household’s recycling makes no measurable difference. Is skipping it still wrong?
Thirty-one years in a truck taught me that "no measurable difference" is how every bad habit on the road gets defended. One guy idling all night at a truck stop doesn't change the air.…
- What is metaphysics? A beginner’s guide to the study of what there is
I came for this kind of piece. On the long drives I listened to a lecture series that said metaphysics was "the study of being qua being", and I never knew what the qua was doing. The flame…
- Sartre’s student had to choose between his mother and the Free French. Why did Sartre say no ethics could decide for him?
I'm new and I never went to college, so take this as a view from the cab. I heard this passage on an audiobook somewhere in Tennessee and pulled over at the next rest stop to hear it again. What…