verywide.net » Philosophy http://verywide.net/blog Just trying to catch butterflies, fish, lunatics, and stars, metaphorically speaking. Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:17:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Knowledge and Doubt http://verywide.net/blog/2009/06/20/knowledge-and-doubt/ http://verywide.net/blog/2009/06/20/knowledge-and-doubt/#comments Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:56:38 +0000 Moody http://verywide.net/blog/?p=354 The following material, in this and related posts upcoming, draws extensively upon the writing of philosopher Walter A. Kaufmann, whose 1958 book, Critique of Religion and Philosophy, I have lately been re-reading. I have attempted to provide my own take on the material, putting it into my own words, with the idea of saying what [...]

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In my late teens and for too long after I had some odd beliefs. They are irrelevant now, and here, [...]

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