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		<title>Why reason fails and eolquence can save it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read an interesting look at the role of eloquence in decision making and persuasion.  It was written by Sir Francis Bacon, and what he did was break down how we think things through by looking at how affection and reason act on how we think.  Here&#8217;s the quote.  It&#8217;s short, if a little heavy going. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The fringe and code talking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Was reading William James last night to finish up some homework. He wrote about a fringe or overtone that accompanies words that is pretty interesting. At first blush it seems to be part of this great code talking phenomenon we&#8217;re seeing these days, the kind of code where there are normal words that mean something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ferrare.net/?p=89</link>
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		<title>Groklaw</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read this blog post today, and couldn&#8217;t agree more.  I&#8217;ve been using Groklaw as an example for years, particularly when I was teaching public affairs at the Defense Information School. My point basically was: woe be unto you if this kind of community/site organizes around defeating you. I also made the point that Groklaw was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ferrare.net/?p=87</link>
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		<title>New look, new momentum?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever been here before you can see the new look.  I&#8217;ve decided to give the blog a serious go and see if I can actually maintain some momentum. The theme is based on the jillig WordPress theme, but I changed the top graphic and some of the text colors.  The graphic is just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ferrare.net/?p=84</link>
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		<title>Hobbes predicted flame wars in 1651</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Leviathan Hobbes wrote: For commentaries are commonly more subject to cavil than the text, and therefore need other commentaries; and so there will be no end of such interpretation. If that doesn&#8217;t describe and explain flame wars &#8212; and perhaps the whole internet, nothing ever will.  It also explains the whole cottage industry of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ferrare.net/?p=80</link>
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		<title>Fast times at work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The day shot by after the long (six-day) snowcapalyse weekend I had. Went from meeting to meeting so fast I couldn&#8217;t catch up on the old e-mail until after I was supposed to be gone. Now I&#8217;m getting ready to read some of Hobbes&#8217; Leviathan.  I&#8217;ve read parts of it before, and the underlining pen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ferrare.net/?p=78</link>
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		<title>Dissing Dante in Paradiso</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read some of Dante&#8217;s Paradiso for home work.  Only one line really stood out for me.  He has Beatrice, his personification of love (and real girl he never got) say: You make yourself dull with false imaginings so that you do not see what you would see had you cast it off. Ain&#8217;t it the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ferrare.net/?p=73</link>
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		<title>Berkeley and abstract ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading Berkeley&#8217;s A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge I was struck that his thought of abstract ideas, of which he seems none too fond so far, is what we now depend on for a good part of our lives: icons. Here&#8217;s his definition of abstraction, more or less: For example, the mind having [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ferrare.net/?p=71</link>
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		<title>Wow.  Missed all of July</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Been busy on the school front and meant to post about it.  Went from one extreme to another and found some new favorite authors (Hobbes, Locke) and some I just need to plow through (Augustine, Aquinas).  I really need to start blogging this stuff to get my thoughts down.]]></description>
		<link>http://ferrare.net/?p=69</link>
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		<title>On to Aristotle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finished up the Socratic dialogs for this course and am now into Aristotle.  I need to sit down and gather my thoughts about the dialogs and capture it here.  The last one I did, Sophist, was a bear in that they kept going off on tangents about all kinds of things while obstensibly trying to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ferrare.net/?p=65</link>
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