Nearby, what began as an existential discussion about the nature of truth ended in real-world agreement: "DNA is the truth".
One follows an existential discussion at a bar called the Gizmo: "Joe had been arguing with the bar's owner, Dixie, about whether or not he would ever break into the place and steal her money.
While the last act falls into sub-Audrey Rose hokum, Pitt and Brit Marling play the existential tech discussions with an admirably straight bat, hooking more cynical viewers (myself included) at key points in the increasingly outlandish narrative.
Between existential cultural discussions and the mourning another phenomenal woman, we counted on women of twitter for a few moments of levity.
Panel discussions had existential titles such as "What Happened and Where Are We Now?" Ramesh Ponnuru, a senior editor for National Review, was asked to explain why the Republicans' economic agenda had failed.
The golden age of American fiction, he wrote, was the decades following the second world war, when new works by Bellow, Roth, John Cheever, Updike et al routinely inspired discussions of "existential urgency".
Many of the panels took place in government buildings or banks, and it was easy, in such anodyne and khaki-colored settings, to forget that the problem under discussion poses existential risks to island nations, coastal cities, and, ultimately, civilization as we know it.
But autistic persons do not have problems with mathematical discourse, or modal discourse, or discourse concerning negative existentials, etc. (For discussion of Stanley's autism objection, see Liggins 2010).
I find this particularly missing in our discussions about the existential threat of climate change.
