Wednesday, December 6, 2023

A simple maxim

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned
        I try to follow a simple maxim:
                if you can’t say it clearly
                        you don’t understand it yourself.

                                John Searle, Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind

 

 

 

 

at
  • Familiar regrets
    In 2012, Australian caregiver Bronnie Ware wrote a book about her experiences in palliative care. There were five regrets that dying people ...
  • One way improvement
    The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.      Frank Herbert, ...
  • Poem: Happiness
    A state you must dare not enter    with hopes of staying, quicksand in the marshes, and all the roads leading to a castle    that doe...