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The existence of stable preferences sounds pretty obvious, but for the past few decades, researchers in the area of behavioral decision theory have raised serious doubts about the existence of any such stable preferences.

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The nature of abstractions is that they have a lasting existence exempt from the contingencies of time and place.

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…when we are truly engrossed in doing something – especially something we know how to do very well… – we tend to forget that we exist.

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…the very existence of bullshit jobs raises certain problems for any labor theory of value.

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…human beings essential are a set of purposes, so that without any sense of purpose, we would barely be said to exist at all.

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