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The PhD Octopus (greenspun.com)
6 points by DaniFong on Sept 22, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Excellent submission. I found his use of the phrase "the Mandarin disease" really intriguing, and it turns out so did other people; if you Google the phrase there is a lot of really good commentary on this piece.


oddly enough, same here. I wondered about writing papers on metaphysics...then I saw the article was dated 1903.


Any guess as to who the brilliant student was (whose published thesis was a "most brilliant contribution to metaphysics")?




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