September/October 2000

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Affronted I found the remark by a reader in your "Op. Cit." January/February issue almost amusing: "I pray that the supreme court of Alabama will rule against Judge Roy Moore and force him to remove the Protestant version of the Ten Commandments–an affront to Jews and Catholics–from his courtroom wall. I can see that the

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For Aristotle the propositional calculus of negation (if p, then not not-p) was an "ultimate belief . . . the starting point of all other axioms" (Metaphysics). It's the simplest proposition of formal logic: something cannot be true without its contrary, its negation, being false. For Aristotle this truth was too basic for demonstration. Negation

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Anthony told me about the routine: he was stripped naked, his hands and ankles were lashed together, a pole was threaded between his ankles, and he was hoisted up to hang head down. Then they beat the soles of his feet, sometimes for hours, until they were swollen and finally insensitive to pain. He told

The Limits of Civil Authority 0
- September/October 2000
- September 1, 2000
There are limits to the authority of the civil power, and these limits should be clearly understood by the people. A republican form of government, as contrasted with an absolute monarchy, implies a limitation to the powers of the government beyond which it cannot rightfully go. Civil government is not the custodian of the souls
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Op. Cit.0
- September/October 2000
- September 1, 2000
Back to Creation From time to time I've come across a copy of your magazine and have enjoyed several of the articles in its pages. A recent article, "Monkey Fever in Kansas" (March/April 2000), was of particular interest to me as I do workshops for teachers and am a consultant with public schools concerning the
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- September/October 2000
- September 1, 2000
So far this millennium has packed a sprightly pace of events into the opening months (I choose to begin it with this year and not the next, as do some of the purists who are out of step with public perception, which is, after all, the only meaningful measure to something that is an artifice
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