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Gratitude Practice: Finitude

February 20, 2022

I am grateful for finitude.  Infinity is an abstraction that refers to a potentiality, a mathematical process that however high we count we can always add one more, or in reality that no matter what combinations of matter now exist they can always form new arrangements.  But whatever actually exists now is finite, with a … More Gratitude Practice: Finitude

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First Principles of Effective Writing

May 12, 2019

What is writing, at root?  From Aristotle’s first principles to von Neumann’s architecture to the two basic operations of consciousness—differentiation and integration—and what they mean for writing well. … More First Principles of Effective Writing

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Seven books by and about Charles Darwin laid out on a tiled floor, among them the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of The Origin of Species, with an orchid on its cover

Book Review: On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin

September 2, 2009

On the Origin of Species is a highly readable, beautifully written book, and should be read as the textbook case of scientific induction. … More Book Review: On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin

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