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Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Jackson’s Marginalia

I find it almost a disgrace that a graduate from a relatively well known university, with a strong degree in philosophy and a high GPA could get out of dozen’s of philosophy classes without having to have read one page of the Metaphysics…. Which is not to say that it isn’t a good book, but I had studied it three times earlier.How did a student get through a degree in philosophy without reading one of the two foundational texts in Western philosophy (the other being Plato’s Republic)?… It all comes down to one position: either you believe A does not equal not-A, that a proposition is either true or false, or you believe nothing, and you can therefore advocate nothing.I am writing a lot in the book, partially from discovering H.

Click cut and paste? How about reading and copying?

But when I asked to read her completed paper, it was nothing but a cut-and-paste job from various web sites on Owens; she even included, quite randomly, part of a press release about some recent celebration in his honor.My daughter’s work ethic may not always be what I’d like it to be, but she’s bright and can write more than sufficiently for a 5th grade social studies class…. Maybe our education system has going to produce little worker drones opposed to men and women who can write properly?When my daughter thinks of the library, it’s a place where she and her brother used to check out picture books and now check out chapter books…. I am glad that Ross is the kind of father who would looking into his children’s work, and the stray time that my father caught me cutting corners and doing a substandard job, knew to start ducking (metaphorically most of the time).This is the way we all begin to think.