A life in words

  • Choice and Belief: A Deliberately Credulous Introduction

    It’s been a little while since posting, and there’s a reason: I’ve been sitting on a stool somewhere in a smoke-filled room (Note: It wasn’t tobacco smoke—somebody just burned something in the oven, of course!) slaving away over a series of new articles on the topic of Choice and Belief. If after reading through all…

  • Jabs

    I’ve never posted a video before as far as I can remember, but this was a real gem: Update: Nevermind, I posted that “Dark Bailout” video just a while ago. Watch this, though! Obama’s was pretty good, too, but McCain’s delivery is impeccable.

  • Psalm 37:21

    The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth. Interesting….

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion…. Nor is it enough that he should hear the arguments of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations…. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their very utmost for them. He must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form….John Stuart Mill, On LIberty