{"id":10260,"date":"2011-10-21T05:45:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T05:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/21\/son-of-atheist-neo-positivist-david-stove-converts-to-catholicism\/"},"modified":"2011-10-21T05:45:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T05:45:22","slug":"son-of-atheist-neo-positivist-david-stove-converts-to-catholicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/21\/son-of-atheist-neo-positivist-david-stove-converts-to-catholicism\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of Atheist Neo-Positivist David Stove Converts to Catholicism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/whyimcatholic.com\/index.php\/conversion-stories\/atheist-converts\/item\/96-atheist-convert-rj-stove\" target=\"_self\">very interesting counterexample<\/a> (or exception?) to &quot;Like father, like son.&quot; (Memo to self: Write a post on the difference between exceptions and counterexamples.)&#0160; Via <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardfeser.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/weekend-reading.html\" target=\"_self\">Feser<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I feel moved to comment on parts of R. J. Stove&#39;s statement.&#0160; Maybe later.&#0160; But at the moment I am more strongly drawn to the pleasures of the mountain bike.&#0160; There is nothing quite like&#0160;cranking &#0160;a mountain bike&#0160;through the foothills of a beautiful mountain range at sunrise.&#0160; And the high I get after 1-2 hours of this is qualitatively different from&#0160;the types of euphoria induced by hiking and running, though these are exquisite as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The strenuous life is best by test.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very interesting counterexample (or exception?) to &quot;Like father, like son.&quot; (Memo to self: Write a post on the difference between exceptions and counterexamples.)&#0160; Via Feser. I feel moved to comment on parts of R. J. Stove&#39;s statement.&#0160; Maybe later.&#0160; But at the moment I am more strongly drawn to the pleasures of the mountain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/10\/21\/son-of-atheist-neo-positivist-david-stove-converts-to-catholicism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Son of Atheist Neo-Positivist David Stove Converts to Catholicism&#8221;<\/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":[260,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversions","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10260","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=10260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}