29 OCT 2013 by ideonexus

 Complaining About Complaining

Your post complaining about complaining doesn't make the best case against complaining in general.
Folksonomies: debate discussion
Folksonomies: debate discussion
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Clever.

31 MAY 2011 by ideonexus

 Aristotle on Knowing

184a Since, in all pursuits in which there are sources or causes or elements, it is by way of our acquaintance with these that knowing and understanding come to us (for we regard ourselves as knowing each thing whenever we are acquainted with its first causes and first beginnings, even down to its elements), it is clear that also for the knowledge of nature one must first try to mark out what pertains to its sources. On the other hand, the natural road is from what is more familiar and cleare...
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He suggests going from the general to the particular, when modern science is about going from the particulars to the general.