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J’avoue d’office que ma question et ma réponse sont totalement truquées en ce sens que je vais nommer des qualités particulières que je ...

The following blog post is dedicated to friends who have suffered—recently or less recently—from the death of loved ones. Unfortunately I&...

There’s a nice French expression to designate a sudden urge: une envie de pisser [wish to pee]. That’s what happened to me a moment ago, le...

Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from wise and intelligent people ...

Don’t ask me why I adore this image: My joy is strictly Platonic. The old Greek fuddy-duddy tried to persuade us that Heaven is ful...

A simple joy at Gamone, now that the weather has warmed up, is to breakfast outside, and to spend a moment reading in the sunshine. [Cl...

I've always been intrigued by manifestations of an everyday concept that can only be called relativity … although it has nothing to do w...

I was interested to come across an article in the New York Times [ display ] entitled Genetic Basis for Crime: A New Look , related to a U...

When I was a student in Sydney, already fascinated by symbolic logic (as I still am), two of my intellectual heroes were the eccentric Briti...

I've just started to reread a book by the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker , published in 2002. It's an exceptional book, like all...

When I visited London for the first time, in 1962, I had an account with an Australian bank whose offices were located on Berkeley Square , ...

Have you ever wanted to know what a web page is? Well, here to satisfy your curiosity is a screen shot of part of a typical web page. In fac...

For a year at the University of Sydney, I attended the classes of John Anderson [1893-1962] in Greek philosophy. It wasn't very excitin...

I know this is going to sound silly, but I'll say it all the same. Ever since my youth, I've been intrigued by the philosophy of mor...

Throughout my younger years, the books of the English philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell [1872-1970] were no doubt my main non-...

My first contact with the intellectual discipline known as logic was in 1957 at the University of Sydney, where I attended the classes of J...