certainty
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Textimony 20140306
Free to doubt this human frailty –a gasp, a tear, a touch, a laugh– forsaken of any certainty: at play in wonder. Let-go. Love. Live. Continue reading
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Willingness and Will
A great philosopher–like Plato or Kant, Laozi or Nietzsche–does not give doctrines for memorization, provide answers to life’s problems, nor demonstrate proofs that will forever explain being human. That such has often been taken away from the greatest minds in… Continue reading
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Boon of Dandelions 8
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveller, long I stood… –Robert Frost So many, so varied are all the possibilities of how anything gets from this place to that… Continue reading
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Rigorous Quantification and Disciplinary Rigidity
Epistemology can be translated as the study of how we know or an account of how we know. In the article I link to below, UT PhD candidate Mark Coddington does a nice job delineating the different situations which generate… Continue reading
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Textimony 20121018
A distinction betwixt youthful choice & decisive mastery: a youth gives answers & gets time; a master forgets answers & forgives time. Graceful oblivion. Continue reading
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A Boon of Dandelions 4
Our greatest shortcoming: obsessive desire for certainty, compulsive appetite for the sure thing. Some will panic in the search; a few get utterly lost in trying to fix the “game.” Yet life is no play-thing to manipulate. The conviction that… Continue reading
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