Education, learning, epistemology
How would I know?
Education, learning, epistemology
It is still in some strange way considered unpractical to open up inquiries about anything by asking what it is.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
We are as solid as most truly false things are—a dance of particles in space. Only the things no one can touch are true, as you should know by now.
Gene Wolfe • Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'
From AI Safety to Cognitive Safety in the Classroom…
The recent New York Times article on “AI mirroring” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html )warns of a troubling phenomenon: chatbots, by echoing a user’s own language and assumptions, can unwittingly reinforce false beliefs. In vulnerable individuals, t
... See moreFrom the Enlightenment on, modern political philosophy has been character- ized by the abandonment of a set of questions that an earlier age had deemed central: What is a well-lived life? What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of the city and humanity? How does culture and religion fit into all of this? For the modern world, the death of... See more
Peter Thiel • The Straussian Moment
They insist that nothing but what was in the bodies of the parents can go to make the bodies of the children. But they seem somehow to think that things can get into the heads of the children which were not in the heads of the parents, or, indeed, anywhere else.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What's Wrong with the World
The truth is, that there is nothing in common at all between these teachers, except that they teach. In short, the only thing they share is the one thing they profess to dislike: the general idea of authority.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What's Wrong with the World
Gene Wolfe, exodus from the long sun
“That’s the happiness of you young people. You don’t know what it Is to be low in your feelings. You always have your appetites too, and what a comfort that is.”
Dickens, the curiosity shop
"Man doth usurp all space, Stares thee, in rock, bush, river, in the face. Never thine eyes behold a tree; 'Tis no sea thou seest in the sea, 'Tis but a disguised humanity. To avoid thy fellow, vain thy plan; All that interests a man, is man."