Showing posts with label received truth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label received truth. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 April 2008

Labels: memory (part two)

There's a limit to the number of labels a post can have. This is part two of the precding post:

young people: unsynthesised manifold
plum: map
louise bourgeois:
manners
madonna: libraries
mother: received truth
nico: moral relativism

That's enough for now...

Friday, 1 June 2007

Assertion without evidence

Sam Harris, in The End of Faith, quotes a rather useful dictum of Christopher Hitchens: "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence".

Worth remembering when men in frocks blather on about natural law.