humility as respectful deference to God
Replicability gets us from experiment to experimental ensemble, which is the basis for theory.
The do-operator relates changes of probabilities to changes in structures of causal dependency.
Every experiment is a selection out of diverse possibilities.
The human mind does not obsolesce.
the ceremonializing aspect of due process (treating as serious waht is serious, showing respect to the person and the citizen)
"Society itself is an effect or work of justice which exercises its authority over mankind." Rosmini
"Truth, as something infinite, renders the person an object to be respected."
Reductionism is useful to science not because it has ever been successful -- every reductionist account of anything beyond very limited domains has had to be significantly revised -- but precisely because it fails in a controlled way.
Particles do not explain; their abstractible characteristics, giving the possibilities that are available to the particles, do.
Most physical equations describe wholes as wholes, not partwise.
equality as a holistic operator.
Explanation in terms of laws of nature is epxlanation in terms of the entire universe.
reductions as theoretical experiments
the sense of the power of an argument
Every scientific reduction is a skeletal idealization, and this is its value.
Law is an instrument, but it is not merely instrumentally valuable.
Systems of property rights, well designed, are not merely useful but also agreeable.
Money confers purchasing power by valuative causation, ie., objective causation as a desirable object, that is itself instrumentally usable.
Addiction is almost never the fundamental problem, although it is very often the worst solution to it.
The nature of law cannot be determined without regard for the nature of legislation.
concepts --> concepts' aptitude for being applied -->principles
Certainty is the structure of social unity.
Forgiveness requires symbolism adequate to it.
literary taste and factors of re-readability (aptitudes in the work for rewarding re-reading)
martyrs as the viaticum of the Church
Theology is such a huge field that it sometimes takes centuries to appreciate a point adequately.
Development of doctrine often occurs by oscillation.
The need of forgiveness for symbolism arises from its need for communication.
Violence always has costs that cannot be foreseen.
"The nature of right is to be sought in the nature of human beings." Cicero (Leg. 1:5)
In society, rickety structures continue to exist usually because they are protecting smoething important.
morally responsible as principle vs morally responsible as exemplar
Philosophy done well is always bubbling.
Gauss suggested direct, inverse, and lateral units, instead of positive, negative, and imaginary units.
The more advanced an animal is, the more it seems to act with something broadly like a sense of humor -- dolphins, elephants, dogs, cats, apes, ravens, and the like all have moments in which they seem almost joking.
abduction, intervention, prediction, confirmation
geometry as the study of possible distinguishable interactions
titles of appropriateness
Attitudes are evoked by perception of ends and functions.
God as omniprobable
necessity qua precondition of manifold of possibilities --> necessity qua omnipossibility --> necessity qua relevant (conditional) omnipossibility --> omniprobability
On many moral anti-realisms, moral realism is at least a useful fiction.
Every living thing is a hierarchy.
Religious movements survive only by being either passionate or profound.
The Scripture that we read is always the Scripture that passes through the community.
We learn how to use instruments by learning how to use our bodies.
We first learn how to learn by being parented.
hasty vs delbierate assault in refutation
Immoral judgments always have an incompleteness about them.
A problem with Kp&Kq -> K(p&q) is that it seems one could know p and know q without knowing the logical operation of conjunction.
Subjective Bayesianism often seems to have problems similar to those one gets when one assuems that implication and inference are the same.
imagining as vs imagining as like
epistemic K as converter between mind-dependent and mind-independent modalities
Francis of Meyonnes's 4 ways to divine ubiquity
(1) immensity
(2) causality
(3) immutability
(4) coexistence
(his assessment of these is somewhat complicated, so these should be considered a classification of ways in which people have tried to show that God is everywhere; the fourth seems mostly distinctive to him)
divine presence as a precondition of incipit and desinit (God as present to states of change)
prior and posterior presence
Common ways that mothers think and speak about the unborn, although quite diverse, usually have something to be said for them.
In matters of reason, a good effort is never wasted.
Much artistic crafting takes place in the realm of hypotheticals.
All trust has implicit and eplicit modes.
Norms are only as rooted as their known reasons.
In every field, the best generation to be a part of is the generation after the geniuses.
"Rituals are established to regulate the feelings of the world, either by curbing excesses or by exhorting them where they fall short, simply so that people understand the fitting mean in the world." Dai Zhen
The 'familiar instance' in the Nyaya syllogism is something commonsensical that also survives acute investigation.
All nonpresence is relative to a presence.
hauntological arguments
Mt 26:67 // Mic 5:1
-- note that Matthew has already attributed Mich 5:2 to Christ in Mt 2. Note also Jesus as Shepherd (Mt 9:36, Mt 26:31, in comparison to Micha 5:4.