<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808</id><updated>2011-07-07T20:02:01.462Z</updated><title type='text'>Maieutikos</title><subtitle type='html'>Philosophie, art, science et pensée bouleversante&lt;/br&gt;&lt;/br&gt;
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Philosophy, art, science and upsetting thoughts</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>51</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-3670974243642748209</id><published>2007-06-22T18:05:00.000Z</published><updated>2007-06-24T19:42:34.245Z</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The Shoulders Bear the WorldBy Carlos Drummond de Andrade(Translated by Tony Marmo)The shoulders bear the world,There comes a time when one no more says ‘oh my God!’A time of absolute purging,When one no more says: ‘my love’,For love turned out to be useless.And the eyes don’t cry.And the hands just perform the hard work.And the heart is dry.In vain women knock at your door, you will not open.You</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/3670974243642748209/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=3670974243642748209' title='42 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/3670974243642748209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/3670974243642748209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2007/06/shoulders-bear-world-by-carlos-drummond.html' title=''/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>42</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-116283386195680105</id><published>2006-11-06T17:16:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-11-06T17:27:30.130Z</updated><title type='text'>AN ODE TO THANKLESSNESS</title><summary type='text'>The following is a famous poem by Augusto dos Anjos, whereby he argues that, in order to survive, one needs to learn ungratefulness and retribution as a basic protection against both false friends and solitude.It is considered one of the most eloquent poems of pessimism and reflects the personal unfortunate experiences the author had undergone in his life.Private VersesBy Augusto dos </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/116283386195680105/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=116283386195680105' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/116283386195680105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/116283386195680105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2006/11/ode-to-thanklessness.html' title='AN ODE TO THANKLESSNESS'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-115847660655167825</id><published>2006-09-17T06:59:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-09-18T21:37:16.506Z</updated><title type='text'>AN OLD PHILOSOPHICAL PUZZLE BY DE CAMOENS</title><summary type='text'>Love, Invisible Fire[A Puzzle]By Luis Vaz de CamoensTranslated from Portuguese by Tony MarmoA flame burning in ways unseen is Love;A wound aching imperceptibly;A discontent form of contentment:O, such excruciating a pain is love and yet it hurts not.Love is more unwillingness than strong will;It is a lonely walk among the cloud;When utter happiness is never enough;When one makes sure that it is </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/115847660655167825/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=115847660655167825' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/115847660655167825'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/115847660655167825'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2006/09/old-philosophical-puzzle-by-de-camoens.html' title='AN OLD PHILOSOPHICAL PUZZLE BY DE CAMOENS'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-115803068952412873</id><published>2006-09-12T03:07:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-09-12T03:11:29.570Z</updated><title type='text'>A POEM BY MARIO DE ANDRADE</title><summary type='text'>I am ten thousand million guysBy Mario de AndradeTanslation: Tony MarmoI have ten thousand, I have ten thousand million personalities,My feelings give re-birth to themselves incessantly;O mirrors, O Pyrenees, O rednecks, Should a god die, I shall buy another in a convenience store.The best words I hug in my bed,And my sighs are other guys’ violins;And I walk on the land just like the man who </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/115803068952412873/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=115803068952412873' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/115803068952412873'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/115803068952412873'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2006/09/poem-by-mario-de-andrade.html' title='A POEM BY MARIO DE ANDRADE'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-115057313208874141</id><published>2006-06-17T19:34:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-19T02:30:00.870Z</updated><title type='text'>Propaedeutics: Algebra (2)</title><summary type='text'>Still incompleteHEYTING ALGEBRAThe word Algebra has been taken from a famous book by Algorism, Hisab al-jabr w’al-muqabala, which roughly means the Science of the Reunion and the Opposition. From the phrase al-jabar (the reunion) comes the modern term ‘algebra’. In its current usages, nevertheless, the name 'Algebra' has different meanings and senses, depending on what field of inquiry is </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/115057313208874141/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=115057313208874141' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/115057313208874141'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/115057313208874141'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2006/06/propaedeutics-algebra-2.html' title='Propaedeutics: Algebra (2)'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-114973974074448926</id><published>2006-06-08T04:07:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-08T04:09:00.766Z</updated><title type='text'>Collective violence is not for no good reason</title><summary type='text'>OLIGANTHROPIAWhy so much violence? During the month of May, riots have taken place in several Brazilian prisons, were organised by a major criminal gang, whilst, at the same time, members of the same criminal gang, operating outside the prisons, engaged in systematic acts against civilians on the streets and in malls, perpetrating other crimes. This week, a peasant civil right movement tried to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/114973974074448926/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=114973974074448926' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/114973974074448926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/114973974074448926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2006/06/collective-violence-is-not-for-no-good.html' title='Collective violence is not for no good reason'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-114771070092607272</id><published>2006-05-15T16:26:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-06-08T03:03:44.243Z</updated><title type='text'>Propaedeutics: Algebra</title><summary type='text'>IncompleteL'AlgèbreL’Algèbre étude de certains ensembles sur lesquels on a mis une certaine structure, c’est voir dire, des ensembles munis d'une structure algébrique (groupes, anneaux, etc), indépendamment de leurs réalisations concrètes des propriétés, de la notion de limite (rattachée à l'analyse) et de la notion de représentation graphique (rattachée à la géométrie).Une Algèbre sur un corps, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/114771070092607272/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=114771070092607272' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/114771070092607272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/114771070092607272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2006/05/propaedeutics-algebra.html' title='Propaedeutics: Algebra'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-114640216229621678</id><published>2006-04-30T12:56:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-04-30T13:02:42.313Z</updated><title type='text'>XENOPHOBIA, FASCISM AND LACK OF ARGUMENTS</title><summary type='text'>BLAMING THE DECENT NEIGHBOUR TO CONCEAL INCOMPETENCEBoth Islamic and Non-Islamic terrorist cells continue to operate in our planet. This is due to the fact that the main powers of the World let a private criminal organisation and its top leader escape unpunished and unharmed from their known station. Now the same administration who had not the competence to capture the World’s number one murderer</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/114640216229621678/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=114640216229621678' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/114640216229621678'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/114640216229621678'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2006/04/xenophobia-fascism-and-lack-of.html' title='XENOPHOBIA, FASCISM AND LACK OF ARGUMENTS'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-114481664827420566</id><published>2006-04-12T04:35:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-09-02T04:03:29.453Z</updated><title type='text'>UNIFORMATIVE DIDACTICS</title><summary type='text'>Why do we need scholars in the media?In this day and age, when you ask a simple question like Why do some persons vote for such our such Political Party?, you may get not all sorts of possible answers from the easily available sources of information. Indeed, it is almost the case that you always get the non- skilled or uninstructive answer from both intellectuals and illiterates, or, to be more </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/114481664827420566/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=114481664827420566' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/114481664827420566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/114481664827420566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2006/04/uniformative-didactics.html' title='UNIFORMATIVE DIDACTICS'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-114315721915841403</id><published>2006-03-23T23:26:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-03-24T16:07:25.750Z</updated><title type='text'>A PARADOX</title><summary type='text'>WE ARE ALL PHILOSOPHICALLY SIGNIFICANTIf we could rename our species after what expresses our deepest aspiration we would call ourselves Homo aeternus, rather than sapiens. Death is our true and most hated enemy. Consider that, unlike what Christian priests often claim, Jesus’ top priority was not to defeat the devil, which remained as insignificant as ridiculous, but death itself. Indeed, the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/114315721915841403/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=114315721915841403' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/114315721915841403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/114315721915841403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2006/03/paradox.html' title='A PARADOX'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-114010794447514514</id><published>2006-02-16T16:36:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-16T20:59:51.006Z</updated><title type='text'>Question of the Day</title><summary type='text'>A PUZZLE ABOUT MODALITY Necessitation, Collapse, Banalisation and other IssuesOne of the curious properties of the Modal Semantics of Human Languages is that they do have a T principle and a Necessitation rule, and even Aristotle’s law, but lack other principles, like banalisation and collapse. The T principle may be stated as follows(1):T: A⊃A In Logic the Necessitation Rule requires that if A </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/114010794447514514/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=114010794447514514' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/114010794447514514'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/114010794447514514'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2006/02/question-of-day.html' title='Question of the Day'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-113948935905177437</id><published>2006-02-09T12:43:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-09T12:59:52.620Z</updated><title type='text'>BRIEF THOUGHTS ON CRUCIAL MATTERS (one moment of your reflection, please)</title><summary type='text'>A NEW GENERATION OF WAR NUMINATo be one with the Universe and to exist in harmony with other creatures fall within human capacity though, humanity still seeks and walks throughout the perverse path of war and destruction. Surely, in every conflict there is the stronger side, who happens to be the blinder one as well. Should they pursue the total annihilation of their weaker enemy, they imagine </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/113948935905177437/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=113948935905177437' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/113948935905177437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/113948935905177437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2006/02/brief-thoughts-on-crucial-matters-one.html' title='BRIEF THOUGHTS ON CRUCIAL MATTERS (one moment of your reflection, please)'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-113921394990857727</id><published>2006-02-06T07:33:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-10T06:33:55.070Z</updated><title type='text'>Propaedeutics: Counterfactuals</title><summary type='text'>Some properties of counterfactualsUpdatedThis note is intended to cover questions some readers have about some of my comments on works on counterfactual conditionals. In the following I repeat some of the things I have already said, and the examples I give are found in the literature.Can counterfactuals be explained temporally, via concepts like time-line/ history?  To answer this question, one </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/113921394990857727/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=113921394990857727' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/113921394990857727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/113921394990857727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2006/02/propaedeutics-counterfactuals.html' title='Propaedeutics: Counterfactuals'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-113185193815179347</id><published>2005-11-14T03:15:00.000Z</published><updated>2006-02-25T13:49:55.963Z</updated><title type='text'>What is a Field? [1]</title><summary type='text'>PROPAEDEUTICSThe structure we shall talk about is known technically as a field. It comprises a set of postulates which apply to a set of objects and to some unspecified operations. In the case of a field, the operations are two in number. Various other structures differ in this regard.Speaking in a simplified manner, what is necessary to characterise a field is a specified set of objects or </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/113185193815179347/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=113185193815179347' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/113185193815179347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/113185193815179347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/11/what-is-field-1.html' title='&lt;font color=#880000&gt;What is a Field?&lt;/font&gt; [1]'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-112359794460758290</id><published>2005-08-09T14:30:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-08-09T14:37:21.936Z</updated><title type='text'>The Little Starving Wolf in the Forest</title><summary type='text'>A Perspectival TaleOnce upon a time there lived a little wolf in the woods, who was so poor and destitute that had almost nothing to eat. He used to walk through a long road and to beg for the generosity of passers-by in vain. Day after day he had to fast and pray for food.  On one day there came a young attractive but selfish girl dressed in a fancy red suit, carrying a basket full of groceries.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/112359794460758290/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=112359794460758290' title='5 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112359794460758290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112359794460758290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/08/little-starving-wolf-in-forest.html' title='The Little Starving Wolf in the Forest'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-112222732391921424</id><published>2005-07-24T17:21:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-07-24T17:48:43.936Z</updated><title type='text'>Why Major Books Have Vanished throughout History?</title><summary type='text'>Daily Life Philosophical QuestionsThere are many possible answers to this question. One of them is that book owners, who held important key works in their collections, also had menial employees. After one's maid comes to organise the library, which had been already carefully and methodically organised, one will never find any important reference ever again during his mortal existence.The Didache,</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/112222732391921424/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=112222732391921424' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112222732391921424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112222732391921424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/07/why-major-books-have-vanished.html' title='Why Major Books Have Vanished throughout History?'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-112208021668253659</id><published>2005-07-23T00:51:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-07-23T00:58:48.576Z</updated><title type='text'>La tristesse apparente des psychopathes</title><summary type='text'>Est-ce que les psychopathes ont des moments de dépression?Pour les psychopathes, on ne peut pas parler de dépression classique puisqu'il ne peut y avoir référence aux interdits, ni culpabilité. La dépression du psychopathe est plutôt d'ordre narcissique, et le passage à l'acte en est une composante. L'histoire du psychopathe est faite d'histoires qui sont en plein dans la réalité et dans le </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/112208021668253659/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=112208021668253659' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112208021668253659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112208021668253659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/07/la-tristesse-apparente-des.html' title='La &lt;i&gt;tristesse&lt;/i&gt; apparente des psychopathes'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-112199887731984675</id><published>2005-07-22T02:19:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-07-22T02:21:17.326Z</updated><title type='text'>On Reverse Engineering</title><summary type='text'>The Discussion About whether recent advances in science and technology have benefited from Extra-terrestrial sources is becoming more curious and challenges the fact-speculation divide.Does Reverse Engineering (of ET Technology) Work?Reverse engineering is the process of analysing a finished product of an unknown technology and creating replica or similar, which presupposes finding an appropriate</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/112199887731984675/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=112199887731984675' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112199887731984675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112199887731984675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/07/on-reverse-engineering.html' title='&lt;font color=#990000&gt;On Reverse Engineering&lt;/font&gt;'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-112187762630397703</id><published>2005-07-20T16:37:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-07-20T16:40:26.310Z</updated><title type='text'>Pensée bouleversante</title><summary type='text'>Does Reverse Engineering (of ET Technology) Work?Reverse engineering is the process of analysing a finished product of an unknown technology and creating replica or similar, which presupposes finding an appropriate manufacture process. According to what many in the world believe, one of the most coveted technologies of reverse engineering is the propulsion system of extraterrestrial UFOs. The </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/112187762630397703/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=112187762630397703' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112187762630397703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112187762630397703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/07/pense-bouleversante.html' title='&lt;i&gt;Pensée bouleversante&lt;/i&gt;'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-112185270275003344</id><published>2005-07-20T09:43:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-07-20T09:47:18.956Z</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Is There Daylight between Existence and Non-Existence? By Uriah Kriegel A discussion from another blogConsider Jim, Jim’s shadow, and Jim’s ghost. According to common wisdom, Jim is a real thing, Jim’s ghost is not, and Jim’s shadow has some sort of intermediate status (“lower” than Jim’s but “higher” than Jim’s ghost’s). Perhaps the folk would say that Jim’s shadow is real alright, but it is not</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/112185270275003344/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=112185270275003344' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112185270275003344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112185270275003344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/07/is-there-daylight-between-existence.html' title=''/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-112156347472979168</id><published>2005-07-17T01:15:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-07-17T01:24:34.736Z</updated><title type='text'>THE COLD CIVIL WAR</title><summary type='text'>Why were the Winners angry?Spartan aristocracy used to annually declare war against the Helots, their slaves, whom they kept under control with the help of the Krypteia (the Spartan secret police). Nowadays, things do not seem much different in the so called modern societies.The Paulista Avenue is one of the most important streets of Sao Paulo and one of the epitomes of the opulence and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/112156347472979168/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=112156347472979168' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112156347472979168'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112156347472979168'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/07/cold-civil-war.html' title='THE COLD CIVIL WAR'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-112134784555940293</id><published>2005-07-14T13:20:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-07-14T13:34:19.656Z</updated><title type='text'>Le jour de gloire est arrivé!</title><summary type='text'>14 JUILLET: Vive La LibertéLiberté, Liberté chérie Combats avec tes défenseurs! Sous nos drapeaux, que la victoire Accoure à tes mâles accents Que tes ennemis expirants Voient ton triomphe et notre gloire!On connaît rarement l'année 1880  qui marque pour la France la consécration du 14 Juillet comme fête nationale. Voici les textes fondateurs : comme le dit Henri Martin, rapporteur au Sénat de la</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/112134784555940293/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=112134784555940293' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112134784555940293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112134784555940293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/07/le-jour-de-gloire-est-arriv.html' title='Le jour de gloire est arrivé!'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-112093307172686231</id><published>2005-07-09T18:15:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-07-09T18:17:51.730Z</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>On the other blog:Opacity and Paradoxes</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/112093307172686231/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=112093307172686231' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112093307172686231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112093307172686231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/07/on-other-blog-opacity-and-paradoxes.html' title=''/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-112062980285504925</id><published>2005-07-06T05:57:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-07-07T07:50:51.193Z</updated><title type='text'>PHILOSOPHY CANNOT CANCEL REALITY [2]</title><summary type='text'>Here is an interesting work collected from the Online Papers in Philosophy. It is a paper about whether artworks exist and/or can be destroyed:The Destruction ProblemBy Mark G. Barber and Ben Caplan [...]The question of whether repeatable artworks can be destroyed has been neglected in favor of the question of whether repeatable artworks can be created. For example, Realists who are both </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/112062980285504925/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=112062980285504925' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112062980285504925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/112062980285504925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/07/philosophy-cannot-cancel-reality-2.html' title='PHILOSOPHY CANNOT CANCEL REALITY [2]'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111959986621012253</id><published>2005-06-24T07:55:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-06-24T08:13:07.666Z</updated><title type='text'>THE FIRE IN THE FERTILITY CLINIC EXAMPLE</title><summary type='text'>In the discussion I mentioned earlier, someone has asked me to comment on one of his examples. I could not respond, because the discussion was closed before I could read the example again and write back. Now I give my comment hereinafter, if the author, whose name I shall omit (for I do not know if he wants to be quoted), is still interested.The example is given in this passage, where the key </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111959986621012253/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111959986621012253' title='5 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111959986621012253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111959986621012253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/06/fire-in-fertility-clinic-example.html' title='&lt;font color=#680000&gt;THE FIRE IN THE FERTILITY CLINIC EXAMPLE&lt;/font&gt;'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111955351676152759</id><published>2005-06-23T19:02:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-06-23T19:11:45.073Z</updated><title type='text'>ON THE OTHER BLOG</title><summary type='text'>This week, see in LINGUISTIX&amp;LOGIK:Modality and ParaconsistencyOn the Storeyed Revenge of Strengthened Liars Standard and Non-Standard Quantifiers in Natural LanguageZero Tolerance for Pragmatics </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111955351676152759/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111955351676152759' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111955351676152759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111955351676152759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/06/on-other-blog.html' title='&lt;font color=#FF0000&gt;ON THE OTHER BLOG&lt;/font&gt;'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111888362988258355</id><published>2005-06-16T00:52:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-06-16T01:07:11.766Z</updated><title type='text'>WHY SHORT NOTES?</title><summary type='text'>Somebody has asked me why do I often write brief notes. Briefly, I often make my notes as short as possible, unlike other blog writers, who like to put long treatises on small topics online, because I want to be read by a greater number of visitors, who cannot spend extended periods absorbing simple messages.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111888362988258355/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111888362988258355' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111888362988258355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111888362988258355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/06/why-short-notes.html' title='WHY SHORT NOTES?'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111873290798755214</id><published>2005-06-14T07:01:00.001Z</published><updated>2005-06-14T07:15:08.070Z</updated><title type='text'>PERSONHOOD x STEM CELL THERAPY</title><summary type='text'>The false dilemmaDenial of personhood and of humanity always works against Human Rights and minimal principles of Ethics, Democracy and Dignity; and never the other way round. It in itself is a wrong method of argumentation and serves only to justify wrong theses. Still, it is even odder and illogical to use this argument in favour of saving life forms.The following reflection is in part an </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111873290798755214/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111873290798755214' title='7 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111873290798755214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111873290798755214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/06/personhood-x-stem-cell-therapy_14.html' title='&lt;font color=#630000&gt;PERSONHOOD x STEM CELL THERAPY&lt;/font&gt;'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111829370000367430</id><published>2005-06-09T05:05:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-06-09T05:08:20.010Z</updated><title type='text'>WHAT DO POLITICIANS REALLY MEAN?</title><summary type='text'>Mediocre public debates do not reflect impreparation When one Brazilian President proposed another reform of the Social Security system, by which again retirement pensions would be cut, he used an odd argument to defend it from critiques: that his proposal was supported by State Governors too, as if this fact could somehow counterbalance or revoke the damage caused to workers who would loose </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111829370000367430/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111829370000367430' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111829370000367430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111829370000367430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/06/what-do-politicians-really-mean.html' title='WHAT DO POLITICIANS REALLY MEAN?'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111788602496580192</id><published>2005-06-04T11:52:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-06-04T12:02:33.116Z</updated><title type='text'>Human Semantics</title><summary type='text'>Note: Due to technical difficulties for some to browse the other blog, I had to reproduce the post below:The Stanley-Rett DebateNominal RestrictionBy Jason StanleyExtra-linguistic context appears to have a profound effect on the determination of what is expressed by the use of linguistic expressions. For a bewildering range of very different linguistic constructions, adhering to relatively </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111788602496580192/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111788602496580192' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111788602496580192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111788602496580192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/06/human-semantics.html' title='Human Semantics'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111768287830939549</id><published>2005-06-02T03:25:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-06-02T06:36:15.753Z</updated><title type='text'>DO YOU SEE IT?</title><summary type='text'>If you can see my other blog, please write a comment below, so that I can know it.The other blog has been unavailable to some people who tried it.Update:WHAT YOU WILL NOT SEEThere is a new paper by Sbardellini &amp; Coniglio available via the CLE website , but you won't see the usual post in my other blog, because I do not know what kind of problems make it unavailable to some persons.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111768287830939549/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111768287830939549' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111768287830939549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111768287830939549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/06/do-you-see-it.html' title='DO YOU SEE IT?'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111679193852031390</id><published>2005-05-22T19:57:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-05-22T20:00:37.616Z</updated><title type='text'>AFFIRMATIVE SUPERIORITY</title><summary type='text'>ON SOME ASPECTS OF PATERNALISMMany times during her career, Eni Orlandi had had many happy insights to make challenging questions that forced progressive scholars to rethink assumptions and face their own prejudices and misconceptions. One of her recurrent questions was about the relation between the self-proclaimed Pro-Indian Whites and the Indians themselves: Why do we assume that it is the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111679193852031390/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111679193852031390' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111679193852031390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111679193852031390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/05/affirmative-superiority.html' title='AFFIRMATIVE SUPERIORITY'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111579519185860585</id><published>2005-05-11T06:34:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-05-11T07:08:11.310Z</updated><title type='text'>SCIENCE VERSUS SCIENCE FICTION?</title><summary type='text'>The Modern Age Evolution of PrimatesIn the fields of Formal Linguistics, Philosophy and Logic we struggle to obtain subsidies to our projects, including grants to training researchers. Other areas seem to be taken more seriously and have easier access. Perhaps, if you read the following, you can tell me why, for I do not get it:The Great Ape Trust is an organisation dedicated to providing </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111579519185860585/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111579519185860585' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111579519185860585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111579519185860585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/05/science-versus-science-fiction.html' title='SCIENCE VERSUS SCIENCE FICTION?'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111527863195308732</id><published>2005-05-05T07:33:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-05-07T07:07:33.420Z</updated><title type='text'>WE HAVE ALWAYS EXISTED</title><summary type='text'>Athens Older than ChinaWhen children look at pictures of their parents' wedding, they usually ask Where was I?, assuming that they have always existed. Plato transfers this infantile notion to the collective ego and assumes that Athens has always existed:Let me begin by observing first of all, that nine thousand was the sum of years which had elapsed since the war which was said to have taken </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111527863195308732/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111527863195308732' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111527863195308732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111527863195308732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/05/we-have-always-existed.html' title='WE HAVE ALWAYS EXISTED'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111522888323753692</id><published>2005-05-04T17:46:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-05-04T17:48:03.300Z</updated><title type='text'>Death Penalty itself is Impure</title><summary type='text'>Quote of the DayThis is the ship in which, as the Athenians say, Theseus went to Crete when he took with him the fourteen youths, and was the saviour of them and of himself. And they were said to have vowed to Apollo at the time, that if they were saved they would make an annual pilgrimage to Delos. Now this custom still continues, and the whole period of the voyage to and from Delos, beginning </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111522888323753692/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111522888323753692' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111522888323753692'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111522888323753692'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/05/death-penalty-itself-is-impure.html' title='Death Penalty itself is Impure'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111515358923701306</id><published>2005-05-03T20:50:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-05-04T05:09:44.116Z</updated><title type='text'>Mac Llama for Bolivians?</title><summary type='text'>WHAT STARVING BOLIVIAN FARMERS SHOULD EAT, FROM AN OUTSIDER PERSPECTIVEIt seems that poverty does not only deprive us of material assets, but also makes us some form of magic or extra-terrestrial alien creatures, even to those who claim to want to assist us in our needs. So there come the very original ideas to help those who are incapacitated to help themselves.The IFAD had launched a USD 11.30 </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111515358923701306/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111515358923701306' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111515358923701306'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111515358923701306'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/05/mac-llama-for-bolivians.html' title='Mac Llama for Bolivians?'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111413419593158340</id><published>2005-04-22T01:40:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-04-22T14:15:57.046Z</updated><title type='text'>THE INVISIBLE CONDUCTOR'S BATON</title><summary type='text'>VILLA-BOBOS, THE PATRIARCH OF HOLLYWOOD MODERN MUSIC(?)Everyone talks about Tom Jobim and Bossa Nova and how indebted Hollywood music is to them. But it is obvious that the popular musicians Tom Jobim and Joao Gilberto had been influenced by another key figure of Modern Classic Music, Villa-Lobos. Moreover, whoever listens to Villa-Lobos' work finds a set of  incredibly similar features between </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111413419593158340/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111413419593158340' title='3 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111413419593158340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111413419593158340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/04/invisible-conductors-baton.html' title='THE INVISIBLE CONDUCTOR&apos;S BATON'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111383060648361087</id><published>2005-04-18T13:18:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-04-18T13:23:26.483Z</updated><title type='text'>On the other blog</title><summary type='text'>Unexpected SubstitutionsMinimalists about Truth can (and should) be Epistemicists, and it helps if they are revision theorists tooStrict Identity with No OverlapProbability, Modality and TrivialityThe Telicity Parameter Revisited</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111383060648361087/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111383060648361087' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111383060648361087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111383060648361087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/04/on-other-blog.html' title='On the other blog'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111378854791841661</id><published>2005-04-18T01:40:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-04-18T13:17:52.766Z</updated><title type='text'>THE ANSWER IS THE QUESTION ITSELF</title><summary type='text'>The mysteries of human actions are the very substance that nurtures Scientific thought. A very short and compressed reflectionIt has already been proposed that all things have the same and one principle and that such principle itself is not cognoscible, but its effects can be studied. If this principle is the principle of all, then it is the principle of human behaviour and of its (seemingly) </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111378854791841661/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111378854791841661' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111378854791841661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111378854791841661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/04/answer-is-question-itself.html' title='THE ANSWER IS THE QUESTION ITSELF'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111345284823726502</id><published>2005-04-14T04:23:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-04-14T04:29:21.446Z</updated><title type='text'>PRESUMED GUILTY</title><summary type='text'>A real life episodeThis story has appeared in the Brazilian media: An African-Brazilian man rents a flat in Sao Paulo. The day to pay the rental comes. He goes to the real estate agency and tries to pay with a bank check. The real estate agent says he needs to verify whether the check has sufficient funds and asks if the lessee has another way to pay the rental. The lessee gives him his credit </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111345284823726502/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111345284823726502' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111345284823726502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111345284823726502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/04/presumed-guilty.html' title='PRESUMED GUILTY'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111335162358388689</id><published>2005-04-13T00:18:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-04-13T08:16:53.206Z</updated><title type='text'>MICHAELANGELO THE SUBVERSIVE</title><summary type='text'>Brief NoteMichaelangelo  through his artistic works has been more influential to the definition of rationality in the West than many Scientists and Philosophers. There would be no Cartesian mentality today were it not the concept of art and true erudition that Classical Artists and Writers imposed on the West. It is from this main frame, where beauty, ethics and knowledge are perhaps one thing in</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111335162358388689/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111335162358388689' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111335162358388689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111335162358388689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/04/michaelangelo-subversive.html' title='MICHAELANGELO THE SUBVERSIVE'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111326212884861664</id><published>2005-04-11T23:25:00.001Z</published><updated>2005-04-11T23:31:32.836Z</updated><title type='text'>CLARIFICATIONS ON THE NAME VILLA-LOBOS</title><summary type='text'>Heitor Villa-Lobos has enchanted the worl with his music. He must not be confused with another brilliant soul, Jose Villalobos, the Mexican painter, whose work is now becoming famous in the United States. By the way, there is also another painter by the name Villalobos, Alejandro.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111326212884861664/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111326212884861664' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111326212884861664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111326212884861664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/04/clarifications-on-name-villa-lobos_11.html' title='CLARIFICATIONS ON THE NAME &lt;i&gt;VILLA-LOBOS&lt;/i&gt;'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111310901682323642</id><published>2005-04-10T04:38:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-04-10T06:03:26.386Z</updated><title type='text'>'GALATIANS' ACCUSING OTHERS OF BEING "GALATIANS"</title><summary type='text'>Jeremy Pierce has posted an entry on a strange issue:Catholics and the Galatian Heresy Many Protestants say that Catholicism is simply not part of Christianity. They say that Catholic views about justification and salvation in general are not compatible with what the Bible teaches about such matters, and in fact Catholics are teaching what Paul in Galatians calls another gospel, which is not </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111310901682323642/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111310901682323642' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111310901682323642'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111310901682323642'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/04/galatians-accusing-others-of-being.html' title='&apos;GALATIANS&apos; ACCUSING OTHERS OF BEING &quot;GALATIANS&quot;'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111304926874770274</id><published>2005-04-09T12:16:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-04-09T12:47:57.890Z</updated><title type='text'>A CURIOUS RIDDLE ON A 21ST CENTURY LEGEND?</title><summary type='text'>Brief NoteKai von Fintel in his blog asks about a Philosopher called V.H. Dudman: I am preparing a seminar presentation on tense in conditionals, a truly daunting topic. One of my tasks has been to re-read some of the works of V.H. Dudman, who is perhaps the philosopher who has taken the grammatical contribution of tense to the semantics of conditionals most seriously. While spending some idle </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111304926874770274/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111304926874770274' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111304926874770274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111304926874770274'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/04/curious-riddle-on-21st-century-legend.html' title='A CURIOUS RIDDLE ON A 21ST CENTURY LEGEND?'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111224553973325191</id><published>2005-03-31T05:03:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-03-31T05:14:23.473Z</updated><title type='text'>SPEAKING THEIR MINDS</title><summary type='text'>What if we are immortal beings?From the point of view of psychology, each individual needs to believe in his own (physical) immortality, a sine qua non condition to maintain his mental sanity. From the social point of view, nevertheless, individuals refrain themselves from expressing such belief in order not to pass by insane. Thence, one interesting social and anthropological phenomena is taking</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111224553973325191/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111224553973325191' title='6 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111224553973325191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111224553973325191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/03/speaking-their-minds.html' title='&lt;FONT COLOR=#FF0000&gt;SPEAKING THEIR MINDS&lt;/FONT&gt;'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111167479603217667</id><published>2005-03-24T14:31:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-03-24T14:35:10.540Z</updated><title type='text'>On Power Illusions</title><summary type='text'>If I am not mistaken, some Christian denominations explicitly affirm their belief in the potential physical immortality of humans, which, according to their doctrines, will be realised, i.e., become a concrete fact after the resurrection day. Besides these Churches, I know of no group who admit this hidden assumption.The non-admitted belief in human physical immortality is important to justify </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111167479603217667/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111167479603217667' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111167479603217667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111167479603217667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/03/on-power-illusions.html' title='&lt;font color=#FF0000&gt;On Power Illusions&lt;/font&gt;'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111145762847292278</id><published>2005-03-22T02:12:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-03-22T02:16:07.120Z</updated><title type='text'>On the Suppression of Self-Defence </title><summary type='text'>Brief NoteThe right to self-defence is individual and not transferable. This means that, if it is possible to relinquish such right, it can be only relinquished by a personal and direct choice of each individual. None can, on behalf of a third party, decide to relinquish it. If one individual cannot personally make the choice to relinquish such right, all the other persons around him have to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111145762847292278/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111145762847292278' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111145762847292278'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111145762847292278'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/03/on-suppression-of-self-defence.html' title='&lt;font color=#FF0000&gt;On the Suppression of Self-Defence &lt;/font&gt;'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111120332414845066</id><published>2005-03-19T03:33:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-03-19T03:36:43.116Z</updated><title type='text'>THE IMPORTANCE OF SELF-DEFENCE AS A PRINCIPLE</title><summary type='text'>There are many ways to characterise ethics. Some ways belong to a class one may call consuetudinal, while others take ethics as a discipline or science, a particular ethical system being the product of the mind of an author. Nevertheless, what underlies every ethical system, whether costumary or the construct of one thinker, is a basic principle that seems to take precedence over all others, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111120332414845066/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111120332414845066' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111120332414845066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111120332414845066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/03/importance-of-self-defence-as.html' title='&lt;font color=#CD0000&gt;THE IMPORTANCE OF SELF-DEFENCE AS A PRINCIPLE&lt;/font&gt;'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111109003871571050</id><published>2005-03-18T10:06:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-03-18T11:12:01.643Z</updated><title type='text'>Capital Punishment and its Nonsensical Premises</title><summary type='text'>The oddest idea behind the institution of death penalty is that it presupposes (and encapsulates the belief in) the physical immortality of humans, a thesis that is denied in every culture.The institution of death penalty has been discussed from several points of view. Here I would like to discuss this issue from a more Philosophical perspective, i.e., in a more abstract and slightly radical </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111109003871571050/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111109003871571050' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111109003871571050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111109003871571050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/03/capital-punishment-and-its-nonsensical.html' title='Capital Punishment and its Nonsensical Premises'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111107749105478795</id><published>2005-03-17T16:24:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-03-17T16:38:11.056Z</updated><title type='text'>Documentaires</title><summary type='text'>LES ENFANTS DE MOLIERE ET DE LULLY                                    En 2004, la troupe du Poème Harmonique a créé l'événement en interprétant une oeuvre majeure du patrimoine français : Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, de Molière, dans la version originale jouée à Chambord par Lully et Molière devant le Roi Soleil. Vincent Dumestre, le directeur musical, la chorégraphe Cécile Roussat, le metteur en </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111107749105478795/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111107749105478795' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111107749105478795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111107749105478795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/03/documentaires.html' title='Documentaires'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11513808.post-111107523104971470</id><published>2005-03-17T15:57:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-03-17T16:07:47.856Z</updated><title type='text'>Highlights from FAPESP MAG</title><summary type='text'>FINDINGS FROM PRE-COLUMBIAN BRAZILFAPESP MAG (full name Revista Pesquisa Fapesp or Fapesp Research Magazine) has published two interesting articles about recent archaeological discoveries that are reshaping the previous views on the History of South-American Peoples before the arrival of the first Europeans. These articles are now available online in English, though the most interesting </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/feeds/111107523104971470/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11513808&amp;postID=111107523104971470' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111107523104971470'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11513808/posts/default/111107523104971470'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maieutikos.blogspot.com/2005/03/highlights-from-fapesp-mag.html' title='Highlights from &lt;i&gt;FAPESP MAG&lt;/i&gt;'/><author><name>Tony Marmo</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
