Saturday, May 12, 2012

"The great achievement is to lose one's reason for no reason. . . ."

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"'a knight errant deserves neither glory nor thanks if he goes mad for a reason.  The great achievement is to lose one's reason...
Sunday, May 6, 2012

"the inference that makes science": the abduction/retroduction inclusive of deduction, induction, and abduction/retroduction in the narrow sense

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"Peirce was the first [in history] to say straightforwardly that to deduction and induction, we must add a third (which he variously na...

"Your grace, come back, Señor Don Quixote, I swear to God you're charging sheep!"

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Douce Blog, Ashmolean      Sancho Panza, in Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote I.xviii (trans. Edith Grossman (New York:  HarperCollins P...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

On the recurrence of the paschal feast

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William Pye, Baptismal font, Salisbury Cathedral (2008) . "God of everlasting mercy, who, in the very recurrence  of the paschal fe...
Monday, April 30, 2012

Those bloodthirsty medieval popes

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"we believe in and confess one God, even if in a different way, and we praise and worship Him daily as the Creator of time and the rule...

"like a cow staring at a new gate"

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Center Line Highway Products Supply      "Joseph is for us not only an example of all the virtues, but also a lovely image of God f...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

"love" no sign "that two people . . . belong to each other"

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"'if life did not make duties for us before love comes — love would be a sign that two people ought to belong to each other.  But. ...