Archive for June 16th, 2009

Symposium: Defending Objectivity

Since I’m only responding to John’s post now, I will do a line-by-line response.
John says:
“The “objective” judgments he mentions, that involve thinking “hard and rationally” (as if subjective judgments don’t), are: “You could say that Movie A’s theme was better developed than Movie B’s, or that the dialogue in Movie A was less meaningful than [...]

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The Sports Revolution: The Wall-Less Stadium

Let me set the scene for you: A very strong, and fairly slow, man is at the plate. He swings his bat and breaks it as the ball flares out to left field. It goes over the fence for a home run.
Let me reset the scene for you: That very strong, and fairly slow, man [...]

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