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New links to check out… Dreams can come true it can happen to you — if someone forgets to renew a software license Explanations are “mental acts, not just facts” — Chaz Firestone looks at Tania Lombrozo’s new book on explanation “What shape is this paradox?” sounds like a category mistake — but mathematicians have an explanation for why the Condorect Paradox is in the shape of a Klein bottle “The tragedy is that many people today are deprived of both good company and good solitude. They do not feel truly met by others, and they do not feel at home in themselves” — Amir Zadnemat on loneliness (via The Browser) Is metaphysics about looking for some kind of fundamental level? Does reality come in levels? If so, do they stand in relations of fundamentality? Might it be levels all the way down? Why down? — Kit Fine and Timothy Williamson debate metaphysics “Real relationships with people are what’s good for us. And if we don’t get that, even if we don’t know we don’t get it, it’s still bad…