The story about Goranies

The Story About Propositions

Talking even about rather ordinary circumstances appears to implicate directly certain metaphysically loaded identifications. For example, if Dr. Gustav Lauben is a doctor then it seems to follow that he has the property of being a doctor; just as if he is injured, he has the property (or the characteristic) of being injured. Moreover, if Frege should come to believe that the good doctor is inj...

A Story about Learning

A question appeared on the screen about thermometers. John became interested and sat down. Mary typed an answer, and more questions followed: ‘How long do you leave it in your mouth for accurate temperature reading.’ Mary and John discussed this, and then Mary typed 'I would leave it in for several minutes'. The message on the screen agreed with her, and another question was presented. The ques...

Joinville: a Hagiographic Story about Oneself and about the Other

The article deals with a Mediaeval hagiographic text dating from 1309, Joinville's work Histoire de Saint Louis. The text is a hagiography or sacred biography, a legal testimony that served in the canonisation process of Louis IX, but, at the same time, also the chronicle of a crusader expedition, that is, the story of a journey which was both an expedition and a pilgrimage. Finally, the text i...

Reasoning about Space: the Hole Story

The real story about low fat.

You may have noticed the big headlines last week suggesting that low-fat diets--long recommended as the path to better health--don't do any good. Before you rush off to order a cheeseburger with an ice-cream chaser, however, you should take a closer look at the studies on which those headlines were based. You'll probably end up concluding, as I did, that paying attention to how much and what ki...