MO Gov Parson gave a speech to MO education administrators recently, which has me feeling a tad ranty. In it, he spoke glowingly of his friend ‘Margie’, director of DESE (MO Dept of Elementary and Secondary Education), and encouraged MO’s poor public s…
Remember to remember. Remember that while we’re preoccupied with our concerns of the day, the worst lessons of our yesterdays – such as the unexpected attack upon us 82 years ago today – can return in an instant to consume our present. Remember that wh…
Remember to remember. Remember that while we’re preoccupied with our concerns of the day, the worst lessons of our yesterdays – such as the unexpected attack upon us 82 years ago today – can return in an instant to consume our present. Remember that wh…
We began these posts with Inigo Montoya’s ‘You keep using that word, I don’t think it means what you think it means’ being the perfect meme for ‘Epistemology’, whose philosophical system bears little relation to what the word was coined to mean. As it…
For all my friends and family who understand the importance of talking to each other, and discussing all matters about family and friends, and religion and politics and nutrition, and who know how to disagree reasonably without becoming disagreeable – …
William Ernest Henley. 1849–1903Invictus
OUT of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludg…
We’ve looked at how Metaphysics, Logic, and Ethics, support a proper ‘theory of knowledge for justified belief’, but what does it take to realize that what you believe is right, is actually wrong? For instance, we noted that it was once acceptable beh…
We’ve looked at the misleading origins of the term ‘Epistemology’ in the mid 1800s, and at how the term purports to carry on the pursuit of ‘meaning’ that the premoderns were concerned with, even as the modernist’s new ‘4th branch of philosophy’ reject…
The previous post reviewed the highlights of Metaphysics and noted that everyone has a philosophy, even if they are unaware of it, and that the only choice open to us is whether yours will be a confused mishmash that’ll be of greater benefit to those i…
In the previous post I pointed out that despite what the Textbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and Wiki’s, would have you believe, Epistemology is not an ancient term for an equally ancient ‘4th Branch of Philosophy’ that ‘all the greats of philosoph…
In the movie the Princess Bride, in response to his Sicilian employer repeatedly blurting out the word ‘unbelievable!’, the character Inigo Montoya utters what has become an iconic and meme-tastic line:
“You keep using that word, I don’t think it mean…
It’s that time again, to speak truth to the power of the woke folk who fail to give any thought to the discordant noise of their virtue signaling, in prattling on about wanting to change ‘Columbus Day’, to ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’ – time to update and …
In light of current events, and as my opinions don’t shift with the times, it seems like a good time to re-post this from 12 years ago, updating it only by adding two words ‘and defend’ to the title:
“Israel has a Right not only to exist, but to define…
Today is the 236th birthday of the United States Constitution. Peruse it or lose it… and the liberty it was written to preserve.
What was signed as completed upon this day, two hundred and thirty-six years ago, September 17th, 1787, by thirty-nine …
In previous posts in remembrance of September 11th, 2001, I’ve noted that who we are as Americans, has been becoming less recognizable than the date we’re remembering, and if anything, that lack of recognition has been growing between us, as that time …