Special thanks to Ratheka Stormbjorne and Shiloh Miyazaki for doing some of the research for this essay. All opinions expressed are my own however.| www.thelastrationalist.com
Note: Because I had the sudden epiphany that I haven't consulted the neuroscience literature | www.thelastrationalist.com
Literary warrant, a concept introduced by Wyndam Hulme in 1911, has the status of a principle. A subprinciple of the principle of representation, it enjoins that the vocabulary of a subject language be empirically derived from the literature it is intended to describe. This means that a literature must be determined. For Hulme, the language in question was the Library of Congress Classification (LCC), and the literature that served as warrant were the books housed in the Library of Congress. ...| www.thelastrationalist.com
There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.| www.thelastrationalist.com