An idea both novel and interesting is almost surely wrong.
Jan 122017
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 102017
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt look like sound epistemic principles to me.
Jan 062017
You can talk a man into anything, as long as there’s nothing you have to talk him out of.
Nov 182016
Pedantry begins as a parasite on fastidiousness, and eventually destroys its host.
Nov 152016
What is most original is least influential, for we are influenced only by what we can assimilate.
Nov 012016
Ideas need not stand continuous duty, like sentries; you can abandon one without another fresh and ready to take its place.
Oct 042016
If only thought were conserved like matter, if lost thoughts were transmuted instead of vanishing forever.
Sep 222016
When a philosopher says that you have denied the metaphysical nature of something he means that you have explained it.
Sep 212016
Less likely that it is complicated than that you are simple.
Aug 292016
Knowledge is to have a hammer; wisdom is to recognize what’s not a nail.