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Saturday, February 25, 2006
Bonaventure on Teaching Wisdom
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It is impossible for wisdom to be taught save through words. But words are not sufficient to teach unless they be pithy, and a man cannot sp...
Friday, February 24, 2006
A Few Points on Wieseltier's Review of Dennett
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Having recently managed to read Wieseltier's review (this is a slightly abridged version, see below) of Dennett's Breaking the Spel...
Compassion, Truth, and Respect
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Rebecca at "Rebecca Writes" has a post well worth reading on cancer and divine providence. I think a great many things said about...
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Notes and Links
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* In Pseudohistory and Pseudoscience (PDF) Douglas Allchin discusses the use and misuse of history of science in science education. There...
Wisdom from Polycarp
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Stand fast, therefore, in these things, and follow the example of the Lord, being firm and unchangeable in the faith, loving the brotherhood...
Diminishing and Non-Diminishing Qualifications
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Consider the following two inferences: (1) The car is rubber with respect to its tires; therefore the car is rubber. (2) The man is blond wi...
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
On Treating Women Better than Men are Treated
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One of the weaknesses in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex is that it often makes it sound as if the primary thing were to treat wome...
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