{"id":10095,"date":"2011-12-07T11:13:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T11:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/12\/07\/typos-and-the-pleasures-of-blogging\/"},"modified":"2011-12-07T11:13:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T11:13:37","slug":"typos-and-the-pleasures-of-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/12\/07\/typos-and-the-pleasures-of-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Typos and the Pleasures of Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the pleasures of blogging, for me at least, is re-reading what I have written.  But then I discover the typographical errors.  I seem to be almost blind to them: I see past words to their sense, though sense is not something literally to be seen. (Here, in nuce<\/em>, is yet another argument against physicalism.)<\/span><\/p>\n

How can I fail to see a typo in a two-sentence post that I have re-read many times?  Here is what I just now discovered and corrected:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Aporeticians qua<\/em> aporeticians do not celebrate Christmas. The celebrate Enigmas<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We see what we want to see.  We also sometimes see what we don't<\/em> want to see.  I went hiking with a guy once.  We took his car.  A third guy persuaded the first to drive to a trailhead that didn't interest him.  He was in a bad mood as a result.  After the hike, he looked at a rear tire and cursed his having a flat.  I said, "No flat, it's just the way the tire is distended by its contact with that rock." He began to argue with me.  I insisted there was no flat.  I was right.  Obviously, he didn't want there to be a flat, but that's exactly what he, or his bad mood, saw.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the pleasures of blogging, for me at least, is re-reading what I have written.  But then I discover the typographical errors.  I seem to be almost blind to them: I see past words to their sense, though sense is not something literally to be seen. (Here, in nuce, is yet another argument against physicalism.) … Continue reading “Typos and the Pleasures of Blogging”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}