So what is an axiom? Axiom, as no doubt you are aware, is the name of the great space station on which mankind draws out its centuries-long vacation from the planet as the movie Wall-E opens. It seems to have been named in the confidence that it could...

There is a prejudice abroad that an axiom is a certain sort of proposition or statement, which serves as one of a set of starting points to build the any science (construed as a set of interrelated propositions regarding a genus) through inferences...

Kant distinguishes the respective influences of the sublime and the beautiful in terms of stirring. These terms suggest a constellation of oppositions between the sublime and the beautiful. The sublime interrupts, astonishes, and overpowers its...

It may seem like I never respond to comments on this blog, but the fact is that it just takes me a lo-o-o-ong time. So please, keep commenting. Today, I’m writing in answer to patrokleia’s remarks nearly two years ago, on the matter of “the rewards of...