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Saturday, September 16, 2017
The Dilemma of All Human Philosophizing
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It is a bold undertaking to pick out a single pair of concepts from a closed system in order to get to the bottom of them. For the "org...
Friday, September 15, 2017
Vehement Fire of Charity
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Today is the feast of St. Catherine of Genoa, who devoted her life to the sick and ran a hospital. She died in 1510. Her most famous and las...
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Opinio Copiae inter Maximas Causas Inopiae Est
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John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women , Chapter 1: I have dwelt so much on the difficulties which at present obstruct any real knowled...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Music on My Mind
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Clamavi De Profundis, "The Fall of Gil-Galad".
Χρυσόστομος
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Today is the feast of St. John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople, Doctor of the Church. A bold and charismatic speaker, he was both po...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Berkeley and the Adventures of Gaudentio (Re-Post)
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This is a lightly revised re-post of a post from 2014. In 1737 a work was published in London, Memoirs of Sgr. Gaudentio di Lucca (in lat...
Monday, September 11, 2017
Ad Baculum
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Ad baculum is a popular entry on fallacy lists. It originally began as a joke -- argument by beating someone into submission -- but, in a p...
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