Here we are in the last half of the first third of the 21st Century yet I am having a great deal of difficulty because I do not have my eyeballs today, having undergone some surgery this morning.
Category: Nobody Asked, But
J. S. Mill’s Methods III
Caution, critical thinking required. From Dictionary of Philosophy: Mill’s methods: Inductive methods formulated by John Stuart Mill for the discovery of causal relations between phenomena.
Telephone Etiquette
What is going on? Have you encountered people who, in the middle of public places, hold their mobile phones out at crooked arm’s length, horizontally, while using the speaker feature, apparently max’ed?
J. S. Mill’s Methods II
Determining the critical difference is the key. From Dictionary of Philosophy: Mill’s methods: Inductive methods formulated by John Stuart Mill for the discovery of causal relations between phenomena.
J. S. Mill’s Methods I
Determining cause and effect is not a simple feat. From Dictionary of Philosophy: Mill’s methods: Inductive methods formulated by John Stuart Mill for the discovery of causal relations between phenomena.
Uniquity I
You are unique, now and throughout time, past, present, and future. Your replica could happen, but for all practical purposes, it never has and never will. Therefore, you have the natural right to be recognized for what you are, free and unique. You also have an equal degree of responsibility.
POTUS and the Fantasy
It came to me with sickening suddenness that the misadventures of POTUS, all of them but now particularly, resemble the fantasy quest of a hormone-driven teenaged boy. It seems a world in which everything is viewed as a centerfold, and an opportunity to gain a prodigious rush.
Process Eats Product
There is no music that is free of the instrument. Interface dictates product. Consider this quote, “An elective despotism is not the government we fought for” from James Madison.
Yalta Bibliography III
I also have written about Yalta, along with my alter ego, Verbal Vol, in previous posts to EVC. Here are the links.
Cincinnati III
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.