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When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite. --With this I began to do philosophy.

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As a philosopher, you define constraints for any good theory explaining what you are interested in, then you go out and search for help in other disciplines.

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