Monthly Archives: March 2014

The Vast Unseen and the Vast Unseeable: Reconciling Belief and Nonbelief

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Bob Shepherd

Those who are not philosophically inclined can be divided, roughly, into two groups: There are the Naïve Realists who think that what is available to the senses or potentially available to the senses is all that there is. And then … Continue reading →

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What Happens When Amateurs Write “Standards”

Posted on March 15, 2014 by Bob Shepherd

John Martin, illustration for John Milton’s Paradise Lost, “Satan Presiding at Internal Council.” (Or is this an illustration of a meeting of the CCSSO and NGA to come up with a totalitarian set of “standards” to foist upon everyone else … Continue reading →

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