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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Vasari on Fra Angelico

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Fra Giovanni was a simple man and most holy in his habits, and one day when Pope Nicholas V desired him to dine with him, he had scruples of...

Il Beato Angelico

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Today is the feast day of Guido di Pietro, more commonly known as Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, even more commonly known as Fra Angelico. (Fr...
Friday, February 17, 2012

On Boudway on Religious Liberty

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Matthew Boudway somewhat flubs his discussion of the recent contraception mandate accommodation controversy by overreaching: Most critic...

Kant on Semblance and Error

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From the nature of error, whose concept, as we noted, contains besides falsity the semblance of truth as an essential characteristic, the f...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

A Poem Draft

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Tide The thoughts of mind in swiftness rise to peak upon a sandy shore where gilding sun makes bright the line of strand, a flowing thre...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Some Thoughts on Teaching Logic to Children

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Logic is something that (1) everyone recognizes is valuable and (2) is obviously undertaught in most modern approaches to education; most of...

A Parable about Reasoning

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Once upon a time (note the mythical cast) there was a man who thought he was dead. His concerned wife and friends sent him to the friendly ...
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