Tag Archives: Soundness

Aquinas’s Argument That One Science Must “Rule” the Others. A Critical Assessment.

0. This post is the second in a series dedicated to a sustained reading of and commentary upon Aquinas’s Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle. In my immediately previous post, I stated that this post would be focused upon the … Continue reading

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More on Ayn Rand on Abortion

In my immediately previous post, the “Ayn Rand, Trump and the Conservatives, and Abortion”* of January 2, 2017, I quoted a passage from Ayn Rand’s “Of Living Death,”** a reply to the papal encyclical, Humanae Vitae.*** The first of the … Continue reading

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Some Central Arguments about Torture Rendered into Precise Logical Form

0. It has occurred to me that it may be useful to look at some of the central arguments currently raging about waterboarding (and so too sleep deprivation, rectal hydration, etc.), torture, criminality, and punishment in the way in which … Continue reading

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Why Logic, Briefly Illustrated

It has occurred to me that some might question why, in my immediately previous post, the “The Inconsistency of the Doctrine of (the Distinction of Divine Persons and so That of) the Trinity with Monotheism” of April 4, 2014, I went … Continue reading

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