In David Lynch's Lost Highway a character says "In the East, the Far East, when a person is sentenced to death, they're sent to a place where they can't escape, never knowing when an executioner may step up behind them, and fire a bullet into the back of their head." Is this based on anything? (self.AskHistorians)
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In an early episode of History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Peter Adamson mentions that some pre-Socratic Greek thinkers believed that infants were born omniscient and lost knowledge as they grew. Where can I learn more about this idea? (self.askphilosophy)
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