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Saturday, July 20, 2019
Footsteps on the Moon
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I. All human hearts rise up, exulting, Reach out to the welcoming sky, Moonlight on our soul-wings, Seeking more and higher than we are....
Oscar Wilde, The Plays of Oscar Wilde; De Profundis
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Introduction Opening Passages: I'll just take one from the tragedies and one from the comedies (ignoring stage directions), and then ...
Friday, July 19, 2019
Practical Reasons, Belief, and Suspension of Judgment
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Selim Berker, in "A Combinatorial Argument against Practical Reasons for Belief" (Analytic Philosophy [2018] 59: 427–70; a preprin...
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Postures of Inquiry vs. Positions (Repost)
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There's an ambiguity, at least as it is often used, that I've always find interesting in the English phrase 'questioning (someth...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Etymologiae
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I was looking at Isidore's Etymologiae today and had an insight into the medieval practice of etymologia . I've noted before that i...
Apollo in Real Time
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This is a neat website celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon mission: https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/ It follows t...
Seven Slight or Minor Sins
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In his Letter 17 to a nobleman of Ravenna, St. Peter Damian has an argument that everyone should pray the seven hours of the Divine Office e...
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