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( Part III ) Conjunctive and Disjunctive Predicates Something we have not directly dealt with before is how to handle something like this: E...

A Sea-Side Walk by Elizabeth Barrett Browning We walked beside the sea, After a day which perished silently Of its own glory---like the Prin...

Inscription for a Fount by Samuel Taylor Coleridge This Sycamore, oft musical with bees,-- Such tents the Patriarchs loved! O long unharmed ...

( Part II ) Now we get to the good stuff: actual inferences. Tautology Loosely following Aristotle, we will call a perfect inference any inf...

I was in a conversation today with someone who tried to enlist me for Amway -- or Quixtar, as the North American portion of the company is n...

"Pure love" for our holy Father John of the Cross means loving God for his own sake, with a heart that is free form all attachment...

In The Mind of the Maker , Dorothy Sayers suggests that every work of art or craft should be seen as exhibiting three aspects, analogous to ...