Since metaphors shape thinking, if we conflate “mixed metaphors” with “transitional metaphors,” we will likely be one-dimensional in our thinking and “fence ourselves off” from thinking “emergently.” I had the joy of speaking with Dr. Gregg Henriques, and we discussed his marvelous Unified Theory. I greatly applaud his efforts, because…

On telosbound and “This Argument Refutes Materialism/Physicalism” I’ve been inspired too many times to count by Trey over at telosbound, which is one of the best YouTube Channels around. He recently posted a video exploring the strangeness of the human capacity to find distinction in the world, a video he…

Advancing beyond “the argument” to “the project,” how Chapters 3 and 15 matter just as much as Chapter 2, and the effort to establish “the internal consistency” of Joy “Why Does Anselm’s Ontological Argument Haunt Us?” hoped to establish why Anselm is epistemologically significant, and why his work is evidence…

Can “the circle of acceptance” only be entered by tearing it apart? Are the conditions which make “belonging” possible the very conditions which take it away? Minorities generally live more existentially unstable than members of the majority: existential stability is a “Majority Privilege” (as discussed in “Discussing Racism” by O.G…

Where reality is fundamentally paradoxical and incomplete, we require “nonrational action” to avoid Nash Equilibria and to keep reality from collapsing under its own being. Brandon at Brandon’s Bookshelf is great. I’ve had the pleasure of exploring his insights, reviews, and more, and I always appreciate his efforts to invite…

An Addition from “The True Isn’t the Rational” by O.G. Rose It could be said that every truth and its corresponding rationality compose “a rational set,” of which there are potentially many. In one set (say Set A), “wants” might be a valid variable by which to orientate rationality (“I…

Derrida and the Metaphysics of Reading Over Books Funny enough, letters are undefinable: we cannot define a letter, only recognize a sound. Until letters come together into words, no meaning can be located: the gap between the “signifier” and the “signified” doesn’t appear. This “gap” is what Derrida believed metaphysics…

Must we manage an existential state that, if recognized, would cause us existential anxiety but that not recognizing can cause oppression? Is Progressivism the problem? Is Liberal ideology why authoritarianism has become appealing? One can’t help but sense that impression from Berger, Hunter, and Rieff, but even if that’s true…

On Existential Monday by Benjamin Fondane, as Discussed by Davood Gozli, John David, and O.G. Rose Would “the best of all possible worlds” Leibniz discusses be “the most rational of all possible worlds?” By this, I mean a world where only rational action occurred (assuming that is theoretically possible, which…