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Miscomprehension is that comprehension which is taken to be correct until technology reveals the actual nature of what is.
Television, however, has contradicted the social wisdom of our ancestors by suggesting that, under the right circumstances, one writer is preferable to none at all.
For everything which happens presently is a consequence of something which happened before it. The past, in this sense, is little more than a record of causes and their effects. This record is vast but finite, like the universe itself. When a machine is built powerful enough to crunch the ...
Finally, if we defer to the principle of parsimony and strive, in Einstein's formulation, "to make irreducible elements as simple and as few in number as is possible, without having to renounce the adequate representation of any empirical content," we might as readily substitute for our ...
An unpredictable God conforms more readily with our preconceptions concerning the divine and the supernatural. But as such, He disqualifies Himself from any sensible estimation of what is and what should not be. For instance, we could expect, under the supervision of an unpredictable God, either ...
I find it advisable in poetry, as in life, to begin with the probability that God is too complex to be perceived by our senses or understood by our minds. A God anything less than this inscrutable, as a corollary to Anselm's theorem might demonstrate, would not be God, with the result that God ...
Of all the ways of making the weaker argument seem the stronger, merely stating that the weaker argument is an alternative to the stronger is one of the more subtle. Saying that further research into the matter is required is subtler still.