Scottish Nous

Majikthise Wins

... continuum many points for being the first person to officially blogroll me!  It's not much, but it's the highest we go here at Scottish Nous, since we're too commonsensical to buy into powersets of the continuum or anything in between.  (Ok, maybe not, but we still don't like those numbers here even if we are forced to believe in them!)

Ektopos Rocks!

The good folks at Ektopos have sent me my first traffic!  Yay!  As a point of philosophical interest, here's the quote they provide on their "About" page to identify one historical use of "ektopos" in a philosophical context:

Every young man--not to speak of old men--on hearing or seeing anything unusual and strange, is likely to avoid jumping to a hasty and impulsive solution of his doubts about it, and to stand still; just as a man who has come to a crossroads and is not quite sure of his way, if he be travelling alone, will question himself, or if travelling with others,will question them too about the matter in doubt, and refuse to proceed until he has made sure by investigation of the direction of his path. We must now do likewise. In our discourse about laws, the point which has now occurred to us being strange, we are bound to investigate it closely; and in a matter so weighty we, at our age, must not lightly assume or assert that we can make any reliable statement about it on the spur of the moment. -Plato, Laws,VII

Over here at Scottish Nous, we might be slightly more prone to disregard Plato's advice, at least w.r.t. some issues.  It is possible this is a philosophical failing which should be chalked up to this author's youth, but surely some things overheard are just too strange!   Still, the general point is well-taken: good philosophy comes to those who wait.