We can be sure, when we are told that all interpretation is biased, that an egregiously biased interpretation will shortly follow.
Feb 182019
Thinking
Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
—Whitehead
Jan 072019
If A does X, and you ignore it, and B does X, and you condemn it, one may infer that you have more interest in A and B than in X.
Nov 132018
Social justice is to justice what social science is to science.
Oct 042018
Any man who masters the practice of a discipline will be told that he does not understand its theory.
Sep 172018
Think locally, act locally.
Sep 142018
I am reasoned with.
You are persuaded.
He is manipulated.
Sep 072018
Wisdom, to be distilled, must be acquired.
Aug 092018
There are people who say a lot of true things, and people who say a lot of insightful things, but not the same people.
Aug 072018
Humans are so ill-equipped to think about conspiracies that they infect and derange our thinking in the few areas in which we are usually competent.
Aug 012018
Relativism is less a philosophy than an excuse.