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Jacob Billings

Lecturer | Linguist | language researcher | PhD Candidate in Complex Systems

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Month: March 2023

What does it mean to know something?

March 13, 2023March 13, 2023
Jacob Billings
Religion

In Aristotle’s view of epistemology, to know something meant understanding something in preferably four different ways. Aristotle wrote that “we do not have knowledge of a thing until we have grasped its why, that is to say, its cause.” It

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What is the most important word of the constitution?

March 8, 2023March 8, 2023
Jacob Billings
Liberty, Linguistics, Politics

I often pose this question to people that ask me about the constitution and more specifically the Bill of Rights, what is the most important word in that document? The answer…” the.” This determiner, or more specifically, this definite article

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Our life in Guatemala: that time my wife nearly incited a riot in Mexico

March 8, 2023March 8, 2023
Jacob Billings
Personal

As many of you know when we moved down to Guatemala we drove down and have subsequently made that drive three times since. It’s a pleasant drive for the most part. In 2018 we were making the trip back for

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