Heidegger on the way we use the word ‘science’ these days
As we use the word science these days, it means something essentially different from the doctrina and scientia of the Middle Ages, different, too, from the Greek ἐπιστήμη. Greek science was never exact precisely because, according to its essence, it neither could be, nor needed to be, exact. Hence, it makes no sense at all [...]
Procrastinators As Self-Handicapers
“…rather than risk failure, procrastinators prefer to create conditions that make success impossible…”
Quine: The Possible Bald Man In The Doorway
A quote from Willard Van Orman Quine about the concept of identity from the point of view of the actual and the possible.
Quintilian on False Definitions
In his Institutes of oratory: or, Education of an orator. In twelve books Quintilian argues that a definition can be overthrown in two ways. As an example, his uses the definition of a horse as a rational or irrational animal. The English translator make the note that, at this very point, something must been “dropped [...]
Going Postal ? Robin Parks
What do we know about ourselves and how do we know it? Allegedly, Robin Parks was laid of by the U.S. Postal Service back in December 2009. Yesterday, he went on what some described as a “shooting rampage”: while driving and being intoxicated with alcohol, he randomly shot a three cars. It happened in Polk [...]
