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…