{"id":10873,"date":"2011-03-03T15:31:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T15:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/03\/chess-and-philosophy-3\/"},"modified":"2011-03-03T15:31:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T15:31:09","slug":"chess-and-philosophy-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/03\/chess-and-philosophy-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess and Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">In chess, the object of the game is clear, the rules are fixed and indisputable, and there is always a definite outcome (win, lose, or draw) about which no&#0160;controversy can arise.&#0160; In philosophy, the object and the rules are themselves part of what is in play, and there is never an incontrovertible result.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">So I need both of these gifts of the gods.&#0160; Chess to recuperate from the uncertainty of philosophy, and philosophy to recuperate from the sterility of chess.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In chess, the object of the game is clear, the rules are fixed and indisputable, and there is always a definite outcome (win, lose, or draw) about which no&#0160;controversy can arise.&#0160; In philosophy, the object and the rules are themselves part of what is in play, and there is never an incontrovertible result.&#0160; So I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/03\/chess-and-philosophy-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chess and Philosophy&#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":[169,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chess","category-metaphilosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10873","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=10873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}