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Among my most widely read posts here at "Siris" is the 2011 post, Water Is Not H2O , which is about how water is more complicated ...

The Mocking-Bird by Sidney Lanier  Superb and sole, upon a pluméd spray That o'er the general leafage boldly grew, He summ'd the woo...

 Considerations relevant to tense logic go back to Aristotle, but modern tense logic begins with Arthur Prior, who recognized that you could...

By some official oversight, which I am quite unable to explain, we are still allowed to write private letters if we put them in public pilla...

  On the Fourth of July two years ago , reflecting on some comments made by Abraham Lincoln in 1858, I said: At the present time, about 248 ...

This is a re-post, with minor revision, from 2016 .  Alton H. Blackington was a photojournalist who loved New England and who was also a pas...

 causal and compositional reasoning as the primary source of questions 'spurious' is a causal term Everything in liturgy requires ti...