All accounts of sensation are in terms of action, passion, and object; they just differ on how these interrelate.
The pleasures we take in things are heavily modulated by both habit and context.
What God accounts as being, is.
All arguing has a measure of performance and self-presentation to it.
myths as mnemonics for rites
Experimentation has an internal morality that involves carefulness, circumspection, honesty, etc.
Statements in scientific articles express 'objective voice', careulness, reasonableness, and pro-attitudes to the results as not merely achieved but properly and honestly achieved.
The metonymic tendency of the Jewish theology of names proliferates the quasi-divine non-divine; this is especially clear in Second Temple Judaism, which does not yet have the carefully balanced constraints and checks of Rabbinical Judaism.
mind-dependent
(1) as effect: e.g., work of art or craft
(2) as expression: e.g., intellectual activity and habits
(3) as object: beings of reason
fictions may be classified
(a) as to subject to which they are applied: fictionalzing vs nonfictionalizing
(b) as to the beings on which they are modeled: persons, trees, events, etc.,
(c) as to the fiction as fiction? (as to the act of fiction?)
'Now' is not a part of time but a construct upon it.
what is meant to be vs what has meaning in being
Many people, when they say 'plot hole', only mean 'implausibility'; these are not the same thing.
controlled improbabilties as a primary technique in writing fantasy
While chimpanzees drumming have rhythm, they notable do not metricize their rhythm.
Every argument is surrounded by a cloud of related and semi-related positions, hypotheses, arguments, experiential evidences, pragmatic considerations, rhetorical formulations, and poetic images.
physical size as poison resistance
hard fact / soft fact distinctions for locations, possibilities, and permissibilities as well as times
People often reason themselves into absurd positions by treating loose metaphors as if they were strict reductions.
"The information coming from more people to more people has greater built-in redundancy than if it were to flow in one channel of communication." Jan Vansina
Consumption is never the sole end of production.
Everyone has preferences with regard to particular kinds of interactions, particular models of the world, and particular sources of authority, and large scale miscommunications genreally arise when any of these are significantly diferent, as people push toward specific kinds of associations, of diagnoses, of solutions, because of them.
Rights of free speech exist to subserve the virtue of eleutheria.
People are rarely arguing the argument right in front of them.
An opinion is something not yet concluded.
It is difficult to follow the evidence rather than what one assumes the evidence to be.
The classical theory of meter for English is somewhat confused because it conflates length and stress of syllable without recognizing this properly.
Poetic meter is consistent relative placement of sustainable syllables; footing is an artificial device for identifying the consistency, both in kind and in degree.
In spoken poetry you can have 'headless iambs', etc., by breath-rest taking the place of spoken syllable.
Genesis 1:6-8 as a symbol of mercy (waters above the firmament) and justice (waters below the firmament)
Mill's use of the Brutus example may be influenced by Smith's use of the same in TMS.
morality transfigured to sacramentality
community -> baptism
responsibility -> confirmation
social order -> ordination
repentance -> reconciliation
marriage -> matrimony
hope -> unction
devotion -> eucharist
(notably, marriage changes the least and devotion the most)
The story of the modern Catholic Church has been one of actively refusing to draw on its actual resources and consequently failing to press any of its advantages.
statistics as the recovery of structure from uncertainty
"One's own body is in the world just as the heart is in the organism." Merleau-Ponty
(associated experiences + experiences of interventions -> ensembles of possible experiences) + ensembles of measurements -> theorization
Even when one disagrees with it, the conscience of others must be given some respect.
civic discretion (i.e., of citizens) // prosecutorial and executive discretion
computers and corporations as 'technical persons' (i.e., skillful interaction requires treating in some respects as if person) -- this would include the 'lectoral person' of books
corpses as residual moral persons
church-buildings as signs of the incarnate/embodied nature of the Church as deriving from and appropriate to the Incarnate Word
Human beings are the animals who do not belong. All of human greatness arises from what we do about our nonbelonging, whether making peace with it, or building temporary belonging, or guesting to find the belonging we are missing. We build societies because we do not belong, so every day we get up and make a kind of belonging. Art, science, religion are formed as we seek in varoius ways a belonging we know we do not yet have. And in the end all of us face death, the ultimate expression of our nonbelonging, and have to find our peace with it.
All arguments arise out of banal observations.
Scientific realism is a metaphysical position and therefore implies metaphysical realism.
Checks and balances in government require that there are operative rational principles and an authority higher than the checking and balancing departments.
People are more comfortable evaluating personal interactions than arguments as such, so naturally tend to fall back on such evaluations.
judgments of taste as dealing with quality as quasi-relation
Phenomenology follows Descartes in treating necessity as inevitable presumption.
When responding to an argument, the stage of response matters -- e.g., an immediate negative response based on plausibility might in a short while give way to a cautiously positive response based on 'trying things out' in mind, later to give way to outright rejection through methodical proof.
All authority is based on nature and will.
In evidential analysis we decompose things into signs.
Faced with a set of signs, or things recognized as interpretable as such, the scientist will usually focus on the relation to the object, and the artist usually on the representamen as such. But thi sis difference in emphasis, not difference through exclusion.
Christ as natural person
Christ as moral person (Head of Church, etc.)
Church as moral person (baptized community)
Church as juridical person (People of God)
Church as sacramental person (Body and Bride of Christ)
When we eat, we (so to speak) sacrifice to ourselves.
Most progress is not ours.
Plane engines do not fly; planes with engines do.
Genuine diversity is downstream of freedom.
The institution that primarily enforces the rights of children is the family; a tiny fraction of the rights of children are enforced by the state or church, due to the way children are related to each, but in such cases, it is still to be assumed that families enforce most of the rights of children, because neither state nor church can practically engage in that level of enforcement and still achieve their legitimate ends.
Varzi & Casati call holes "locationally gracious," i.e., they allow their location to be shared.
As a prophetic people, the whole Jewish community will tend to be more right in essential things than is immediately obvious; things common to Jews in general, things generally shared by the whole rabbinical tradition, will tend to be right, even if in unexpected ways.
It's somewhat misleading to talk of the 'second coming', because the first coming is still going on, as Christ, the Messiah, continues His advent through the Church until He completes it in the end days.