Every age has its debilitating prejudice; open-mindedness is ours.
Jan 272015
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 082015
Pretentious nonsense and pseudo-difficulty drive truly difficult problems out of circulation, as bad money drives out good.
Dec 152014
If you hear hoofbeats, and see stripes, think zebras, not horses.
Dec 112014
The serial disciple is often mistaken for an independent thinker.
Dec 092014
Facts, like food, should be chewed thoroughly before swallowing.
Dec 082014
The contrarian attends most scrupulously to conventional wisdom.
Dec 042014
We compensate for limited intelligence with bad memories.
Nov 212014
Every logical fallacy is also a valid heuristic.
Nov 102014
The two great metaphors for society in political philosophy have been machine and organism: thus the two for the individual have been cog and cell.
Oct 152014
Better that X guilty men go free than one innocent man be convicted. Solve for X.