tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post413818976285719402..comments2023-12-21T06:35:36.624-05:00Comments on Recursivity: Yet Another Black Eye for the Pascal Lecture SeriesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-84293800410796689642012-03-11T16:46:45.671-04:002012-03-11T16:46:45.671-04:00Anonymous,
"We don't expect Archimedes to...Anonymous,<br />"We don't expect Archimedes to have spoken explicitly on differentiation"<br /><br />No, but he had some things to say about integration.<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest#Mathematical_content" rel="nofollow">The Archimedes Palimpsest</a>Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10876775111703252840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-12014058663177701152012-03-10T22:56:16.439-05:002012-03-10T22:56:16.439-05:00"Aristotle said nothing about contraception!&..."Aristotle said nothing about contraception!"<br /><br />I guess you never read Historia Animalium.Mirandanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-50717889986936439952012-03-09T18:11:20.585-05:002012-03-09T18:11:20.585-05:00Marrying a person of different skin tone does not ...Marrying a person of different skin tone does not contradict what the nature of being a human person is.<br /><br />The study of natural law is rather rigorous and it should have been plain to anyone that it does not apply in that case.<br /><br />Why should Aristotle have spoken about contraception? We don't expect Archimedes to have spoken explicitly on differentiation...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-73509779445864818962012-03-09T16:28:48.909-05:002012-03-09T16:28:48.909-05:00You missed the point completely, Anonymous. "...You missed the point completely, Anonymous. "Natural law" is a fiction. 150 years ago, it was "natural law" that blacks and whites should not mix - hence anti-miscegenation laws. Aristotle said nothing about contraception! "Natural law" just means whatever prejudices the speaker has.<br /><br />I was being sarcastic - sorry you missed that.Jeffrey Shallithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12763971505497961430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-8015055354575905192012-03-09T15:10:25.542-05:002012-03-09T15:10:25.542-05:00Jeff, the Catholic stance coincides with natural l...Jeff, the Catholic stance coincides with natural law because it is based on natural law, which itself as old as Aristotle at least...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20067416.post-44778810224525326942012-02-26T00:35:49.446-05:002012-02-26T00:35:49.446-05:00"The American people do not know whether the ..."The American people do not know whether the current President achieved election by misrepresenting, innocently or by fraud, his eligibility for that office." <br /><br />That could apply to any president. Why target this one specifically? </sarcasm>Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10876775111703252840noreply@blogger.com