Imperial China: 900-1800, F.W. Mote (Harvard University Press, 1999).| www.thepsmiths.com
Our universe is fractally strange, and so are our societies. This is a post dedicated to works of non-fiction which, if you close your eyes or change the names, give the same imaginative thrill as the most daring speculative fiction.| www.thepsmiths.com
Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food, Fuchsia Dunlop (W.| www.thepsmiths.com
One man’s modus ponens is another man’s modus tollens is a saying in Western philosophy encapsulating a common response to a logical proof which generalizes the reductio ad absurdum and consists of rejecting a premise based on an implied conclusion. I explain it in more detail, provide examples, and a Bayesian gloss.| gwern.net