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Is Language Infinite?
The first line of chapter 2 in Noam Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures serves as the basis for this entire essay. Chomsky says ‘From now on I...
Advik Lahiri
Dec 20, 20225 min read
Orsino’s Desire - On Reading and Writing
‘If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.’ Twelfth Night by...
Advik Lahiri
Nov 24, 20224 min read
A Cross-Analysis of Economics and Philosophy
This is a cross-examination of two subjects: economics and philosophy. At first glance these subjects are different. Economics has...
Advik Lahiri
Oct 1, 20227 min read
When, if ever, can acts involving only consenting adults be morally wrong?
Note: This essay was written for the John Locke Essay Competition 2022 Consent is a matter of yes or no. The answer to consent is...
Advik Lahiri
Sep 30, 20228 min read
Min Kamp 1 & 2 - Karl Ove Knausgård
Min Kamp, or My Struggle, is a series of six books written by the Norwegian Karl One Knausgård and was published between 2009 and 2011....
Advik Lahiri
Sep 23, 20225 min read
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