One of my recent posts to another discussion board–my apologies for the lack of context, but it is hopefully interesting enough despite it’s contextual isolation: “I think your remarks and observations are very interesting, and especially for me, the questions about truth. Your distinction between truth and persuasion is well-taken; judges [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Philosophy’
Nuance, Truth, and Rejecting Relativism
Posted in Philosophy, tagged Aristotle, Philosophy, truth on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Descartes’ Optics
Posted in Media, Philosophy, tagged descartes, Media, optics, Philosophy on February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a response that I wrote to a classmate’s post on my class discussion board, but I thought I’d post it here as well just to get the brain juice-a-flowin’! We were discussing Descartes’ scientific writings, and were talking about a section he wrote on optics: I appreciate your honesty about your struggle [...]
