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Overcoming one’s ego is more pleasurable than conquering almost any other bad middah

Jeremy Bernstein's book focuses on mining the meaning of Hebrew through its three-letter roots.

It is a pity that Darwin’s homeland no longer boasts a satirist of the caliber of Thomas Love Peacock to exploit this rich seam of comic absurdity.

The classical pantheon, lacking moral credibility, had become a source of embarrassment to thoughtful Greeks.

What distinguished thinkers had long called out for its manifest absurdity was now, Phoenix-like, rising from the ashes.

The Marketplace of Ideas at The Times of Israel

abstract Consensus is building that, for Aristotle, number cannot be a heap and so must rather be a tight unity (a whole). Scholars commenting on the relevant passages typically conclude, further, that number is a hylomorphic unity. After showing that these passages do not support such readings, I examine Aristotles statements about the ontological status of number. I find that his position is that number is a special kind of heap: a measured heap. Since a measured heap has identity criteria, i...

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