Categories

How the Trick was Done

May 29, 2021

Berkeley’s Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonus George Berkeley was a proponent of what came to be known as subjective idealism, a theory that denied

Read More »

Interaction with Kids

May 26, 2021

John Locke, in his essay On Education, talks about the English custom (at around 1700) of doting on children when young, and then becoming progressively

Read More »

Education and TV

May 25, 2021

The Desire to Learn I was thinking the other day about all the reading I’m doing. The Harvard Classics series includes a lot more philosophical,

Read More »

John Lock on Education

May 24, 2021

Reading John Locke’s Some Thoughts on Education. “Some thoughts” goes for nearly 200 pages, with 216 sections, so apparently… don’t get this guy started, amirite?

Read More »

Martin Luther

May 22, 2021

I had read about Martin Luther, primarily in Will Durant’s Story of Civilization, Part 6- The Reformation. But I had never actually read any of

Read More »
dave

“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“

This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.

The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.