I’m currently reading Yves Simon’s Foresight and Knowledge (Prévoir et savoir), a work written in 1944 on philosophy of science. The first chapter makes up a third of the book. There he considers what chance is (and is not), gives
If you’re in Houston next weekend, University of St. Thomas is hosting the famous Edward Feser. Come if you can. If you cannot, a video recording may be posted below days after the event.
In Latin (For precision and clarity) In English LogicaLogica 1.1 Impossibile est idem secundem idem simul esse et non esse (principle of non‑contradiction). 1.2 Omnis comparatio claudicat nisi in puncto comparationis. 1.3 Contra factum non fit argumentum. 1.4 Qui nimis probat nihil probat. 1.5 Cum negante principia nequit
“Anything that is in potency with respect to an object, and able to receive it into itself, is, as such, without that object; thus the pupil of the eye, being potential to colors and able to receive them, is itself colorless. … Since