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Any legal system that fails to compensate people for epistemic harm is unjust. Their damage must be named and remedied ...

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If we can’t always go to our philosophers for an understanding of Stoicism, then where can we go? One place to start is the Urban Dictionary. Check out what this crowdsourced online reference to slang ...