Epstein Secrets

ving if and only if Aristotle was right. Natural selection simply means the untestable but little-doubted theory of causality. Spencer or Darwin or Gertrude Stein might be faulted for insulting our intelligence by stating the obvious. That shoe would fit Gertrude Stein. But Spencer and Darwin, like the little b

ntial” has an empirical meaning. Aristotle’s idea that potency precedes and explains act is called causality. Adam Smith’s friend and fellow Scotsman David Hume scarcely doubted causality, but argued correctly (I think) that it cannot be proved either by logic or by experiment. The fittest prove themselves su

accent, “you are a phony.” “And, John”, he continued, Iam a phony. But John, Iam a real phony!” The next day I gave my lecture, entitled "Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein, and Frankenstein." Einstein: the revolution in 20" century physics; Gertrude Stein: the first writer who made integral to her work the

intelligence is not the product of an alien invasion. It is an artifact of a particular human culture and reflects the values of that culture.” 3. “David Hume's striking statement ‘Reason Is, and Ought only to Be, the Slave of the Passions’ was written in 1738 [and] was, of course, meant to apply to human rea

accent, “you are a phony.” “And, John”, he continued, Iam a phony. But John, Iam a real phony!” The next day I gave my lecture, entitled "Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein, and Frankenstein." Einstein: the revolution in 20" century physics; Gertrude Stein: the first writer who made integral to her work the

intelligence is not the product of an alien invasion. It is an artifact of a particular human culture and reflects the values of that culture.” 3. “David Hume's striking statement ‘Reason Is, and Ought only to Be, the Slave of the Passions’ was written in 1738 [and] was, of course, meant to apply to human rea