I think I have figured out what I am going to do on this blog. In my first post I made a list of all the things I am, the things I do or am doing and the things I am interested in (for a composition teacher, that was a lousy sentence...I digress.) Since my wife keeps everyone updated on her blog with the goings on in the less-than-wild world of our life I do not feel any pressure to do a running autobiography here. Instead I am going to apply antithetical thinking to each of those things one at a time. Sine I have adult ADD, these posts will probably be short and poorly argued (i.e. overgeneralizations, anecdotal evidence, massive presuppositions on first principles, etc... in other words, all the things I will try to beat out of my Critical Thinking students) but hopefully mildly entertaining.
I will make my first post a little description of what "antithesis" actually is and what it isn't. I will also outline a few of the presuppositions I am working with. I will not argue for them, I will just assume them. I figure that if the modern intellectual establishment gets to take all sorts of things for granted, why can't I? After all, it wasn't until about 200 years ago that my presuppositions that ruled the world for a few dozen millennium, were cast aside for a series of ephemeral fads (fads that had changed every three month or so ever since.) Alas, I am jumping ahead of myself. More on all of that later.
Chet
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