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The Thesis of the Principle Basic Fallacy
Dr Neville Buch The Thesis of the Principle Basic Fallacy: Against the Natural/Artificial and Foreign/Native Binaries (Synthetic Goal/Procedure) https://www.academia.edu/145473077/The_Thesis_of_the_Principle_Basic_Fallacy The Thesis of the Principle Basic Fallacy Abstract The Thesis of the Principle Basic Fallacy asserts that the intellectual separation of ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’ elements in constructing systems of meaning is…
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The Shifting Tides: A Return of the Humanities in Public Imagination
Dr Neville Buch https://www.academia.edu/145459099/Shifting_Tides_The_Return_of_The_Humanities_in_Public_Imagination The Shifting Tides: A Return of the Humanities in Public Imagination Abstract The contemporary return of the humanities to the public imagination is a critical response to the technicisation of cognition and the resultant “immense regression,” a state characterized by “absolute non-knowledge” and the erosion of human agency.…
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The Kindness of Friends and Strangers
I am in joyful shock and I have come to believe in providence. Providence is not predictive, it is only the extraordinary narrative of life, told as history. On this day, 17 December, the ninth anniversary of my lover and wife passing, I received an envelope with a large amount of money, and…
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Ninth Anniversary of the Woman I loved
17 December 2025 Dear friends, I have a message that must be acknowledged. And better that it is engaged in. Ninth Anniversary of the Woman I loved https://www.academia.edu/145443587/Ruth_Buch_Philosophy_Love_and_Universal_Unfolding Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: The life and death of Ruth Elizabeth Buch (died…
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Hanukkah
Dedication to the Memory of those Killed at Bondi Beach, 14 December 2025: Hanukkah, a Jewish festival, lasting eight days from the 25th day of Kislev (in December) and commemorating the rededication of the Temple in 165 BC by the Maccabees after its desecration by the Syrians. It is marked by the successive kindling of…
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Badge of Honour
Neville, This email is to formally advise you that your ongoing email behaviour is completely unacceptable and unprofessional. It must stop. In February 2024 the PHA warned you about this, and other unacceptable behaviours. Your incessant email campaigns reflect badly on yourself and the PHA cannot support or condone them.…
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Who are-is the Fool(s)
PDF FILE Who are-is the Fool(s) 29 November 2025 But dated 29 November 2015. I have been thinking about all of these topics across the fields of learning since 2015. Who are-is the Fool(s) Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 https://www.academia.edu/145198068/Who_are_is_the_Fool_s_ Abstract: In November 2025, a quick series of articles were published…
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Cognitive Failure in the Idea of Job Ready: cognitive failures being discussed, from my work on cognition histories and sociology.
PDF FILE: Cognitive Failure in the Idea of Job Ready https://www.academia.edu/145183063/Cognitive_Failure_in_the_Idea_of_Job_Ready 28 November 2025 Dear friends, I have dug deeper in this academia.edu article on the cognitive failures being discussed, from my work on cognition histories and sociology. I have widen the circle for economists, who may…
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Ignorance and Confusion in National Histories: Against Propaganda
Why are Americans so ignorant about the world? I think the answer is, mostly, because they want to be. One could argue that it’s the fault of the American education system, or the fact the U.S. is actually geographically isolated from the rest of the world, separated by two…
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Great Campus Vibe Shift?
Image: The Dynamic of Cognition for the Great Campus Vibe Shift? I woke up this morning and found yet another academic fashion. What in hell’s name is Great Campus Vibe Shift? Google was not particularly helpful with the first attempt. But then I asked the more open question, what is…