Author: Larry Sanger
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Physics VII.1: What is Aristotle’s argument that everything that is in movement must be moved by something?
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Physics VII.1
Aristotle, Physics, VII.1 (Reeve translation of text α) For those of you who have not purchased Reeve’s translation, I am including it below. The problem is that there are two different texts of Physics VII.1–3, called, by scholars, α and β. Reeve follows α in his version of VII.1, while Hardie & Gaye and Wicksteed…
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Nature Agreed to Publish My Wikipedia Letter—Then Ghosted Me
Earlier this year, leading scientific journal Nature published an editorial lavishing effusive praise on Wikipedia, writing that it is “an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem.” Naturally (no pun intended), as co-founder, I had to respond, knowing that Wikipedia is increasingly “poisoned” itself. (I call myself ex-founder; I have been called the Emmanuel Goldstein…
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The Principles of Reading Order: A Research Program
Abstract: Much of education may be reduced to a sequencing problem: Given a set of books, in what order should they be read? This question admits of surprisingly rigorous treatment. We can identify several distinct types of dependency between books—topical, historical, procedural, motivational, and supplemental—and state principles governing each. These principles in turn suggest a…
