your prayers for all and everyone involved are of course appreciated

dispatches from the midwest

y'all ever wonder if they'd say ``surely you are right socrates'' to try to get him to shut the hell up

that's -9° today to 32° on sunday, for those not using freedom units

god made the midwest to train the faithful

congratulations, you've invented analytic normative ethics

no no, *my* feelings of disgust and revulsion carve the joints of the moral universe, *your* feelings of disgust are mere arational impulses bred into you by evolutionary and social pressures which you then mistakenly reify

want to read papers by nine excellent scholars and some weirdo on the thought of emilie du chatelet? you're in luck! the new bloomsbury companion is now out

www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia...

in the anarcho-conservative meta-utopia yet to come, each community in the archipelago will retain the ability to expel offenders should they so wish

in fairness this is an essay collection

note: the book to whose chapter 5 he refers here is not that book but his ``the book of evidence''

chapter 1 of ``evidence, explanation, and realism''

the absolute GALL of peter to put this in a throwaway line at the end of a chapter

inference to the best explanation? oh you mean adding as many ad hoc epicycles in order to save some preferred phenomenon?

(ii) i suspect that establishing the necessary causation in any case like this would be so prohibitively difficult as to be a practical impossibility

all in all, not a terribly good proposal in purely practical terms if what you care about is efficacy

other things aside there are two practical problems with this

(i) depraved heart murder requires the committing of a ``dangerous and reckless act with wanton indifference to the consequences and perils involved,'' and demonstrating this in cases i suppose qt has in mind would be prohibitive

alternate hypothesis: the fusionist synthesis was always unstable and now, in absence of a defining enemy, the pre-existing fault lines are more salient

(probably a bit of both tbh, they're complementary)

read your lady some poetry before bed lads, cannot recommend it enough

(this might well work for your lads as well, and for a lady's lady, i simply have no data there, but it won't hurt to try!)

this in a place where summers are routinely in the mid-90s (mid-30s centigrade) and not-infrequently have tornadoes

God made the midwest to train the faithful

hat's a straight-up temperature of -18°C and a ``feels like'' of -27°C, for those not using freedom units

checking in on small town missouri where my folks live and

oh

oh no

lfg

i haven't watched it and am not going to; i learned my lesson with snw, not gonna waste my time

(you're right, of course, i probably would've found something to hate, i'm just as the good Lord made me etc)

(curley had a good paper on that connection back in the 80s or 90s, if i recall correctly)

i haven't read the treatises on government and other of locke's political writings closely in years (just the essay), so i wouldn't want to venture an opinion on that

hobbes thought highly of the ttp from what i recall, though, so maybe there's a connection there

(though in a less explicit way)

and almost certainly cicero too!

it'd be interesting to see how this meshes with the stuff in EIVp29-37s2

(i also think we tend to downplay the ways spinoza is an aristotelian these days, and the division of types of government and their corruptions is one of those; compare with politics iii 7/1279b4-1279b10)

not off the top of my head; i want to say matheron but i'll go back and look