I've commissioned a draw-
ing from a man whose blog,
(he says) is a diary. Oth-
ers declare their reasons.
Like all public interven-
tions, this young form in-
vites skepticism; and that
is possibly enough excuse.
Which came first?
That vice has agility, and
a lack of calm, legs which
keep it trustworthy. There
is no such thing as a com-
placent skeptic; and it of-
fends not just us, inherent-
ly, if conceit postures as
intellectually conservative,
but the sloth it would be.
It's not too early, then, I
trust, to think about one's
game?
One obvious reason was of course
the need, particularly acutely
felt after the excesses of ideal-
ist metaphysics, to discover a
criterion for the exclusion of
what was literally nonsense.
Isaiah Berlin
Concepts and
Categories: Phil-
osophical Essays
iv Logical Translation
1950
Henry Hardy
editor
The Viking Press, 1979©
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