Paul Oppenheimer's blog

Paul Oppenheimer's blog

Only the educated are free.

--- Epictetus (55 CE -- 135 CE)

Paul E. Oppenheimer

Paul E. Oppenheimer will be under considerable construction and revision over the nest few months. Suggestions, comments, criticisms, and questions will be most gratefully received by

paul@peoppenheimer.org

Automated Reasoning

If you are interested in discussing
automated reasoning,
please contact me at

paul@peoppenheimer.org.

http://shetterly.blogspot.com/

http://shetterly.blogspot.com/
is one of the blogs of a pair of wonderful writers who are sufficiently fortunate to be married to each other, Emma Bull and Will Shetterly. Never Never is a young adult (YA) novel by Will Shetterly. It must be the folks in the marketing department who decide that one book is YA, another book is genre fantasy, and another book is mainstream fiction. (Of course, without the marketing department, good books would not get distributed or purchased.) The next fiction that I plan to read --- hmm; it is not really fiction: that's just how I name one of my concurrent reading lists --- is an anthology of poems, stories, and essays called The Armless Maiden. I sha'n't say any more about that book until after I have read it.

From Will and Emma's "It's All One Thing." blog,
you can find your way to other good blogs by Emma, by Will, and by other members of the Endicott Studio.

Amazon.com: Books Search Results: When Nietzsche Wept

In this rich novel, Irving Yalom imagines psychotherapy before psychoanalysis. In a mutual healing, two great figures of the history of ideas, Breuer and Nietzsche, find freedom from their obsessions. There are layers and layers of nuance and irony, which you can appreciate only by reading the book.

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http://www.mozilla.org/mission.html

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New England Conservatory

New England Conservatory

Wolves

Wolves

"The gray wolves of Yellowstone National Park continue to flourish due to successful recovery efforts---thanks in part to NWF and its members. NWF is currently working to bring the gray wolf back to the Northern Forest of New England and to conserve this vast and important area for other native mammal and bird species. For more information, visit http://www.nwf.org/ourprograms/."

---National Wildlife Federation

Endicott Studio

http://www.endicott-studio.com/

Chance.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

---Ovid

Amazon.com: Books Search Results: 1577-1640

Amazon.com: Books Search Results: 1577-1640

The period from 1577-1640 is particularly interesting in the history of consciousness.

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Today has been a truly wonderful, life-changing day.

Journal As Aid to Reflection.

I have kept a journal since 1966. It is exciting to put some parts of my journal out in a public place, where I can get responses from anyone.

Philosophical discipline.

The objective of philosophical discipline is to develop the good mental habits of working through a problem carefully so as to advance one's understanding. This process proceeds, in the normal course of things, of very small increments in understanding.

Globslly, we are trying to "save the phenomena," or "save the data" --- that is, to be subject to at least one, but possibly more than one interpretaion of out logical system by being closed under proof-theoretic consequence, and being able to account for all of the dat5a that are determinate (without appeal ot so-called intuition).

I am heavily indebted for this understanding to a very recent discussion with Edward N. Zalta. Any errors of interpretation or inaccuracies or inadequacies of the remarks are entirely my own responsibility.