Not every false belief is a mistake. What is the difference between a mistake and a mental disturbance? A mistake does not only have a cause, it also has a ground. The truth of my statements is the test of my understanding of these statements. The truth of certain empirical propositions belongs to…
Sometimes you have to say it out loud in order for the truth to penetrate, to register, to enter the heart. If you are able, for whatever reason or rationalization, to support the president after Charlottesville and the pronouncement following several days later about the “good people” among the alt-right demonstrators,–you are a racist. …
Just read an essay culled from Philosophy Now magazine. The piece is an interview with Professor Maurizio Ferraris, University of Turin, a proponent of New Realism. Here are some phrases that captured my imagination, vectors for exploration. The transformation of reality: revolution is possible and necessary. But it requires real action and not mere…
Falling in order to rise…. The destruction of received models and forms is necessary in order to clear a space for spontaneous thought to arise. From the cathedral of our own feelings, from the void of the blank canvas, then, comes the space for revelation. We are fragments of an unutterable whole. Meaning is…
Earth is a clump of iron and magnesium, and nickel, smeared with organic material and sleeved in vapor. It whirls along in a nearly circular orbit around a minor star we call the sun. There are enough stars in the universe that if everybody on earth were charged with naming his or her share,…
PERMACULTURE is the science and practice of creating living systems of nature (permanent agriculture). In contrast to traditional agriculture, permaculture is characterized by: FLOW MAINTENANCE: working with nature rather than against it, ALL NATURAL: no artificial pesticides or fertilizer, and ZERO WASTE: complete cycles of use/re-use. The end result is abundance and health. Done…
Life goes on as it must. Patterns are established, habits ingrained, the inexorable impetus of cause and effect. Can I imagine our ancestors sense of dread at a time when they felt the gods were working against them? Has not science removed that burden? Hardly. I had a brief conversation with a friend and…
I am looking forward to attending a concert tomorrow evening, Friday, at the Lake County Fair. Infinity, a cover band I’ve enjoyed in the past, is scheduled to take the main stage at 9PM. Since I am a senior citizen now, Fair admission comes at a discount. To hear tunes made popular nationally in…
Falling in order to rise…… the destruction of received models and forms is necessary in order to clear a space for spontaneous thought to arise. From the cathedral of our own feelings, from the void of the blank canvas, then, comes the space for revelation. We are fragments of an unutterable whole. Meaning is…
The boundaries of causation always exceed the boundaries of consideration. –Wes Jackson Mystery, the unknown, our ignorance always will be with us, to be dealt with. The farther we extend the radius of knowledge, the larger becomes the circumference of mystery. There is, a boundary that may move somewhat, but can never be removed,…
