{"id":940,"date":"2024-02-14T03:43:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T03:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/he-who-hesitates-is-lost\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T03:43:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T03:43:41","slug":"he-who-hesitates-is-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/he-who-hesitates-is-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"He Who Hesitates is Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Sometimes, however, it is better to look before you leap.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Note this curious philo-lang point: &#39;he&#39; above, though grammatically classifiable as a pronoun, does not function logically as a pronoun: it has no antecedent. It functions as a sex-neutral universal quantifier, or rather, it functions as an individual variable bound by a universal quantifier.&#0160; Thus the maxim translates as &#39;For any x, if x hesitates, then x is lost.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, however, it is better to look before you leap.&#0160; Note this curious philo-lang point: &#39;he&#39; above, though grammatically classifiable as a pronoun, does not function logically as a pronoun: it has no antecedent. It functions as a sex-neutral universal quantifier, or rather, it functions as an individual variable bound by a universal quantifier.&#0160; Thus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/he-who-hesitates-is-lost\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;He Who Hesitates is Lost&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,408,316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-language-philosophy-of","category-maxims-mottoes-epitaphs-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","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=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}