All issues appear to have two sides for the same reason a tetrahedron does; and our spatial is better than our logical perspective.
Mar 182020
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
Mar 112020
It is unfortunate that I forget so few of my thoughts.
Feb 262020
Though modern society generally punishes stupidity, it allows certain specialized forms of it, often confused with intelligence, to flourish.
Jan 282020
Enlightenment philosophy is Christianity without the serpent.
Jan 232020
Utter dissociation of thought and action is normal; for its opposite we reserve special terms, like saint, or fanatic, or fool.
Jan 142020
Occam’s Razor accounts not for the world’s simplicity, but for our own.
Dec 272019
We have become too cool for deontology, yet remain too stupid for consequentialism.
Dec 182019
Reasoning to broad, correct conclusions is like beating the market: it happens, but not to you.
Nov 202019
The cure for being in thrall to one bad idea, the reasonable moderate constantly assures us, is to be in thrall to several.
Nov 012019
Ideas spread when the people who hold them move, and perish when the people who hold them die.