Sublime

Your premises must measure up with respect to two counts, truth and strength.

If I have belabored certain points, and regularly opted for the explicit over the implicit, it is because I adhere to the time-honored pedagogic principle that it is always safest to assume as little as possible.

Don’t treat evaluative statements as if they were statements of objective fact.

Discourse on Method.

Aristotle’s pithy two-word definition of man—the rational animal—has gained classical status. “Animal” is the proximate genus; “rational” is the specific difference.

Vague and ambiguous words and expressions wander about among various ideas instead of settling definitely upon one or another particular idea.

Rationalization is reasoning in the service of falsehood.

Establishing the reality of subjective facts depends entirely on the trustworthiness of those who claim to be experiencing them.