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The PhD Octopus
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greenspun.com
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DaniFong
on Sept 22, 2008
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Alex3917
on Sept 22, 2008
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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.
iamwil
on Sept 22, 2008
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oddly enough, same here. I wondered about writing papers on metaphysics...then I saw the article was dated 1903.
michael_dorfman
on Sept 22, 2008
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Any guess as to who the brilliant student was (whose published thesis was a "most brilliant contribution to metaphysics")?
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