Say something logical today in his honor.


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TOF's Dilemma
We are now ready to prove two lemmas regarding motion,  hence... dilemma. ROFL. Never mind. We interrupt this pun to stay on focus. Besides, there are a couple of initial propositions.

Those who have been following these maunderings would be well-advised to read

• Background and
• Part I

lest they lose themselves in the woods. First, we ( Read more... )

The Despair of Thomas Disch


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Today is the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas. Do something logical in his honor.

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Contra pusillanimitatem saeculorum

There is a scene in the movie Of God and Men, in which an official of the crypto-fascist Algerian government blames the then-current Islamist terrorism on, you guessed it, France.  None of this would be happening, he said, had it not been for colonialism.  I don't know if this is a true recounting of the meeting - ( Read more... )

Another Milestone Passed!

An anonymous Twitter notes that "Obama has launched more cruise missiles than all other Nobel Peace Prize winners combined."
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Who Sez There's No Telos in Nature?


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Elsewhere, the Usual Suspects brought up a perennial question, and it amused me to take the counterarguments and the sed contra from what seem at first unlikely sources.

De moralitate atheorum

Question: Whether those who do not believe in God may act morally.

Objection 1. It would seem not, because  as Jean-Paul Sartre held in "Existentialism is a ( Read more... )