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Siris: Habitude XXXII
And to the first one proceeds thus. It seems that gifts are not distinguished from virtues. For Gregory, in Moral. I, expositing Job, ther...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2009/04/blogroll-revision.html
Siris: Blogroll Revision
As you can tell if you aren't reading this by feed, I am redoing my sidebar, especially my blogroll. It hadn't been updated (beyond an addit...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2012/01/tebowological-argument.html
Siris: The Tebowological Argument
People play a lot of games, things that are just a bit of horsing around; and one of the games people are playing right now online is the co...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2025/09/evening-note-for-tuesday-september-25.html
Siris: Evening Note for Tuesday, September 23
Thought for the Evening: Convertibility of Signs and Principles One of the most important aspects of human life consists of probable reaso...
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https://mliccione.blogspot.com/2007/10/pms-ii-siris-on-carson-and-me-vs-witt.html
Sacramentum Vitae: PMS II: Siris on Carson-and-me-vs-Witt
Prof. Brandon Watson of Siris has now weighed in on the debate, such as it is, between Prof. Scott Carson and Dr. William Witt on the so-ca...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2004/09/dangers-of-poorly-chosen-metaphor.html
Siris: The Dangers of Poorly Chosen Metaphor
One of the reasons I worry about the popularity of the Lakoff thing, or, to be more precise, the popularity of Lakoff's framing idea as it h...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2011/12/michael-dummett-1925-2011.html
Siris: Michael Dummett (1925-2011)
Michael Dummett died recently . I never had much philosophical connection with him, because he was wrong about most things that he spent mos...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2015/04/music-on-my-mind_17.html
Siris: Music on My Mind
First Aid Kit, "Master Pretender"
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2004/11/marcel-at-sep.html
Siris: Marcel at SEP
The SEP has a new article up on Gabriel Marcel . I like Marcel a lot, although I don't read as much of him as I would like. For one thing it...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2011/07/kangaroo.html
Siris: Kangaroo
I really like this story about the origin of the English word 'kangaroo', apparently quoted from Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2018/09/three-poem-re-drafts.html
Siris: Three Poem Re-Drafts
The First Way of Saint Thomas Aquinas The changed all around us is easy to see. Unchanged by another no changed thing can be. What is ab...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2008/10/five-dimensions-of-moral-sense.html
Siris: Five Dimensions of Moral Sense
Will Wilkinson has an interesting post worth reading on Jonathan Haidt's analysis of the difference between liberals and conservatives . I'm...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2022/05/visitation.html
Siris: Visitation
[Jacques Daret, The Visitation , from the Arras Altarpiece. The man on the left is a portrait of the donor.] In those days Mary set out an...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2024/01/music-on-my-mind_31.html
Siris: Music on My Mind
Running Wild, "Treasure Island"
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2010/09/maris-stella.html
Siris: Maris Stella
Hail, Queen of Heaven, the Ocean Star by John Lingard Hail, Queen of heaven, the ocean star, Guide of the wanderer here below, Thrown o...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-electoral-college-and-national.html
Siris: The Electoral College and National Popular Votes, Part I
Let us be quite clear from the beginning: The Democratic Party deliberately nominated a candidate who was undergoing federal investigation f...
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Siris Capital in talks to take cybersecurity firm Radware private - CNBC, ETCISO
The deal is not assured and the talks may fall apart, the CNBC report added.
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-law-of-nature-and-reason.html
Siris: A Law of Nature and Reason
...We must admit the existence of a law of nature and reason that precedes civil coexistence, and that must be respected by all civil dispo...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2024/02/bonaventure-for-lent-iii.html
Siris: Bonaventure for Lent III
[T]he intellect can be said truly to comprehend the meaning of propositions when it knows with certainty that they are true; and to know in...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2016/01/pauls-pagan-quotations-iv.html
Siris: Paul's Pagan Quotations IV
A possible, but only possible, quoted phrase from a pagan author is found in Acts 26: On one of these journeys I was going to Damascus wit...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2023/05/dashed-off-xv.html
Siris: Dashed Off XV
Prooftexting at least presents prima facie evidence; it is often replaced with things that do not even do that. A historical period is not ...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2017/06/flesh-and-bone.html
Siris: Flesh and Bone
Philosophy is a product of the humanity of each philosopher, and each philosopher is a man of flesh and bone who addresses himself to other ...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2011/07/fraud-part-iii.html
Siris: The Fraud, Part III
( Part I ) ( Part II ) ( All-Father ) How subtle are the gods! But cleverness and doom are partners hand in hand. The treachery of gods ...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2022/08/links-of-note-noted.html
Siris: Links of Note, Noted
* Ashley Cullins, That Was My Idea! How Hollywood Is Avoiding Story Theft Claims * E. Sonny Elizondo, Kantian Eudaimonism (PDF) * Ted Gioi...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2020/02/animal-obligations.html
Siris: Animal Obligations
Human beings obviously understand a lot of their lives in terms of deontic ideas -- rules, laws, rights, obligations, duties. One way this d...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2023/10/learning-to-love.html
Siris: Learning to Love
Nietzsche is very uneven, but one of his very best passages is section 334 of The Gay Science , on learning to love, using music as an exam...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2013/05/aquinas-for-may-xxi.html
Siris: Aquinas for May XXI
Gratia Dei datur ad duo: scilicet ad bonum operandum, et ad vitandum malum; et quantum ad ista duo perfectissimam gratiam habuit beata virgo...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2011/01/in-those-twelve-days.html
Siris: In Those Twelve Days
In Those Twelve Days What is that which is but one? What is that which is but one? We have but one God alone In Heaven above sits on hi...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2017/03/lent-xxi.html
Siris: Lent XXI
And the dragon was angry against the woman: and went to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God, and have the t...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2018/07/frederick-douglass-narrative-of-life-of.html
Siris: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Booker T. Washington, Up...
Introduction Opening Passages: From Douglass's Narrative : I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easto...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2004/12/beginning-of-transition.html
Siris: Beginning of a Transition
For those of you interested in these sorts of things, I have begun to make some of the changes to Houyhnhnm Land . It is nowhere near done (...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2025/09/in-tales-irrevocably-gone.html
Siris: In Tales Irrevocably Gone
Lost by G. K. Chesterton So you have gained the golden crowns, so you have piled together The laurels and the jewels, the pearls out of th...
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Cartografia catastale - Comune di SIRIS
Cartografia catastale
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Siris: Three Poem Drafts
Blush Blushing, confused, I do not know what to say; to be regarded as someone else is awkward in a way, and I wish the earth would swallow ...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2021/10/fortnightly-book-october-3.html
Siris: Fortnightly Book, October 3
The next fortnightly book is Their Eyes Were Watching God , by Zora Neale Hurston. In college (first at Howard University then at Barnard C...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2014/09/they-all-were-moderns-in-their-day.html
Siris: They All Were Moderns in Their Day
Ballade of Moderns by G. K. Chesterton On deserts red and deserts grey The temples into sand have slid; Go search that splendour of dec...
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Siris: Hunnestad Monument
[By Ole Worm (1588-1654) - Worm, Ole, Monumenta Danica (1643)., Public Domain, Link ] This week saw a very interesting historical re-discove...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2004/12/ramblin-man-why-dont-you-settle-down.html
Siris: "Ramblin' Man, Why Don't You Settle Down?"
I'm off to Boston for the next two days; I'll probably be back Friday morning, and I don't think I'll be doing any blogging before then.
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2015/02/fortnightly-book-february-15.html
Siris: Fortnightly Book, February 15
Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. Lloyd Cassel Douglas (1877-1951) was born Doya Douglas in Columbia City, Indiana to a...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2019/07/kant-and-generality-of-maxims.html
Siris: Kant and Generality of Maxims
In introductory discussions of Kant, and sometimes beyond, it is common to raise the problem of the level of generality for maxims. Kant's c...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2017/12/fortnightly-books-index-2017.html
Siris: Fortnightly Books Index 2017
December 10: G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday Introduction , Review November 26: Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonder...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2019/10/tis-old-history.html
Siris: 'Tis the Old History
The Age to Come by Bl. John Henry Newman When I would search the truths that in me burn, And mould them into rule and argument, A hundr...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2012/02/unservile-arts.html
Siris: The Unservile Arts
An interesting article by Andrew Delbanco on the endangerment of liberal arts in the college context . It really does seem that liberal arts...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2010/01/by-infant-tongue-and-looks-of-babish.html
Siris: By Infant Tongue and Looks of Babish Eyes
The Epiphany by Robert Southwell To blaze the rising of this glorious sun, A glittering star appeareth in the East, Whose sight to pilg...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2013/05/beautified-replenished-comforted-still.html
Siris: Beautified, Replenished, Comforted, Still Gazing
Ascension Eve by Christina Rossetti O Lord Almighty, Who hast formed us weak, With us whom Thou hast formed deal fatherly; Be found of ...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2022/04/obsolescence.html
Siris: Obsolescence
I was somewhere on Twitter looking for reading recommendations -- which seem to be harder and harder to find -- and came across a tweet, li...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2005/10/cinematic-sf.html
Siris: Cinematic SF
Via The Little Professor , this is John Scalzi's list of the most influential science fiction movies ('The Canon' or in other words, 'the 50...
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Siris, Italia - Wikipedia
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2011/08/macintyre-on-philosophy-and.html
Siris: MacIntyre on Philosophy and Universities
Philosophy is in any case a social and not a solitary form of enquiry. It requires a setting in which different and rival answers to philos...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2026/04/maurice-leblanc-secret-of-sarek.html
Siris: Maurice Leblanc, The Secret of Sarek
Introduction Opening Passage: Narratively, either the Foreword or Chapter 1 can be treated as the beginning of the book. From the Forewor...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2019/07/hermit-of-annaya.html
Siris: Hermit of Annaya
Today is the feast of St. Sharbel Makhlouf, or Charbel, monk, priest, and hermit of Lebanon. He joined the Lebanese Maronite Order in 1851, ...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2006/06/solemnity-of-most-holy-trinity.html
Siris: Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
Today is Trinity Sunday. A lot of people are observing the occasion with the Quicunque Vult (the Creed called Athanasian), but I can think o...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2022/09/ecstatic-heights-in-thought-and-rhyme.html
Siris: Ecstatic Heights in Thought and Rhyme
Shelley's Skylark by Thomas Hardy (The neighbourhood of Leghorn: March 1887) Somewhere afield here something lies In Earth's oblivious e...
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Siris: 05/04/08
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2016/02/lent-i.html
Siris: Lent I
The way to wisdom is therefore not like that of a man rising from the water into the air, in which, in the moment of rising above the surfac...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2008/10/then-gods-of-market-tumbled.html
Siris: Then the Gods of the Market Tumbled
A word to the wise is sufficient.... The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling As I pass through my incarnations in every age and...
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Siris: Standard Conclusions from 'Vague' Sets of Premises
A thought about tentative arguments. Suppose we have a pair of premises like the following: -S+M -P+M That is, "All S is M" and "All P is M"...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-quick-trip-to-italy-part-viii.html
Siris: A Quick Trip to Italy, Part VIII
On Thursday we headed off to meet our guide at another major attraction, one that is both in the city of Rome and in another country. The...
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Siris: Dashed Off II
To talk about a literary or scholarly canon is to talk about centrality in a network of works. This centrality is affected by (1) extent of...
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https://branemrys.blogspot.com/2008/06/holy-spirit-in-trinity.html
Siris: The Holy Spirit in the Trinity
In an insanely long comments thread on this post , Michael Liccione and Photios Jones (of Energetic Procession ) have been discussing, among...
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