{"id":11635,"date":"2010-05-02T14:44:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T14:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/02\/superb\/"},"modified":"2010-05-02T14:44:56","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T14:44:56","slug":"superb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/02\/superb\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Superb&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">&#39;Superb&#39; is still able to convey a hint of the Latin, <em>superbia<\/em>, pride. A thoughtful writer bears this in mind.&#0160; But in a world of thoughtless readers, there is not much call for thoughtful writers.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">This reflection occasioned by a&#0160;sentence from a secondary source on Pascal: &quot;[The extrinsic proofs of Christianity] are humiliating to the superb power of reasoning that would like to judge of everything.&quot;<\/font>&#0160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#39;Superb&#39; is still able to convey a hint of the Latin, superbia, pride. A thoughtful writer bears this in mind.&#0160; But in a world of thoughtless readers, there is not much call for thoughtful writers. This reflection occasioned by a&#0160;sentence from a secondary source on Pascal: &quot;[The extrinsic proofs of Christianity] are humiliating to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/02\/superb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Superb&#8217;&#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":[542,69,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjectives","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11635","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=11635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}