Category: Substack
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The No True Scotsman or No True Muslim Fallacy
Substack latest. In logic a fallacy is not a false belief but a pattern of reasoning that is both typical and in some way specious. Specious reasoning, by the very etymology of the term, appears correct but is not. Thus a logical fallacy is not just any old mistake in reasoning, but a typical or recurrent mistake…
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Critical Race Theory Attracts the Uncritical
People are suckers for Critical Race Theory (CRT) because they cannot think critically. Substack latest.
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Quietism versus Activism
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The Worst Thing about Poverty
Substack latest. A quotation from Theodor Haecker with a bit of commentary.
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Use it or Lose it?
Substack latest. If you want to maintain your physical fitness, you must exercise regularly. Use it or lose it! Not so long ago I thought that the same principle had a political application: if you want to maintain your freedoms, you must exercise them. Use 'em or lose 'em! But times have changed. And when times change, the…
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Civil Liability for Gun Manufacturers?
Of course not! Substack latest.
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Louis Lavelle on the Stoic Wisdom
Substack latest. I am a lover of the Stoics. Why waste time on New Age hucksters when one can read Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius? But while the Stoics can take us a good stretch down the road to wisdom, they cannot bring us to the end — a fact long appreciated by first-rate minds.…
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On Acquiring a Large Vocabulary
But how useful in a society of semi-literates? Substack latest.
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A Part-Time Monk’s Solution to Suggestibility
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Toleration Extremism: Notes on John Stuart Mill
Substack latest. Toleration is the touchstone of classical liberalism, but Mill takes it too far.
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Is Hegel Guilty of ‘Epochism’?
Substack latest. 'Medieval' is not a pejorative term!
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Alypius and the Gladiators
Substack latest. A note on the soul and its toxins on the feast of St. Augustine.
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Are the Dead Subject to Harm?
Suppose the executrix of my will fails to disburse the funds I have earmarked for the local food bank after my death and instead heads for Las Vegas with the loot. Has she harmed me? Stolen my money? Violated my wishes? Substack latest. I can't eat a no-longer-existent sandwich or kick a no-longer-existent ball. How…
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Would Naturalism Make Life Easier?
Substack latest, for popular consumption, sans technical minutiae. Do I imagine that what I serve up at Substack will improve the world? I am none too sanguine about that, but if it brings a bit of light into a few heads, then it is worth doing. Perhaps it will distract you from your silly distractions…
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The Witness of Maximilian Kolbe
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