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Tag: nominal determinism

By Hole Ousia Posted on February 23, 2026

This way

Categories: Medical humanities, Philosophy, Progress hardly broke its strideTags: biomedical determinism, neurogenetic determinism, nominal determinism, one-word poems, one-word titles, reductionism
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 3, 2024

In a Name

“So fuck that. Fuck Normal” said one of today’s finest Scottish writers. Another Scottish writer worried “He is partially crazy, yes. He is maybe seventy-six percent crazy” Robert Louis Stevenson … Continue reading In a Name

Categories: Omphalos films, PhilosophyTags: Lost farm, nominal determinism, Omphalos films, Rebel antiquary
By Hole Ousia Posted on May 23, 2024November 17, 2024

*Untitled – Notepad

This is my latest short poem.

Categories: Philosophy, Poems, Two culturesTags: nominal determinism, Peter's poems, view from nowhere
By Hole Ousia Posted on February 15, 2024November 18, 2024

and get it wrong

Number me [I am numberless] Label me [I am labeless] Judge me [and get it wrong] I cannot recall when I wrote this short poem.

Categories: Medical humanities, Poems, Psychiatry, StigmaTags: categories, labels, nominal determinism, Peter's poems, sticks and stones
By Hole Ousia Posted on April 8, 2019December 3, 2024

In a Name

“So fuck that. Fuck Normal” said one of today’s finest Scottish writers. Another Scottish writer worried “He is partially crazy, yes. He is maybe seventy-six percent crazy” Robert Louis Stevenson … Continue reading In a Name

Categories: Omphalos films, PhilosophyTags: Lost farm, nominal determinism, Omphalos films, Rebel antiquary
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