{"id":260,"date":"2003-09-07T00:51:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-07T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2018-08-03T13:20:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T18:20:39","slug":"260","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/07\/260\/","title":{"rendered":"Misplaced Modifier of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/\" target=\"new\"><i>The Skeptic<\/i><\/a> Volume 10, Number 1, Michael Shermer writes in a review of <i>The Origin of Minds: Evolution, Uniqueness, and the New Science of Self<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAlfred North Whitehead once famously quipped that all Western philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.  <b>Although Aristotelians would beg to differ,<\/b> a similar observation may be made that modern theories of the mind are footnotes to Darwin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As someone who considers himself vaguely Aristotelian (next person to ask me how I am gets that as a response: &#8220;Vaguely Aristotelian.  You?&#8221;), I have to say I have never considered begging or differing with observations that may be made about Darwin.<\/p>\n<p>Heck, no one&#8217;s even asked.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I&#8217;ll lick any self-important Idealist who wants to tell me that I should be ruled by a class of my betters or that I, as a better, should rule everyone else.  If you call a size eleven cheap sneaker applied judiciously to the glutes and occasionally the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/20\/209\/\" target=\"new\">tensor fasciae latae<\/a> a <i>footnote<\/i>, then I guess I&#8217;ll have to agree with the poorly-written statement in the quote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Skeptic Volume 10, Number 1, Michael Shermer writes in a review of The Origin of Minds: Evolution, Uniqueness, and the New Science of Self: Alfred North Whitehead once famously quipped that all Western philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. Although Aristotelians would beg to differ, a similar observation may be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21779,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/21779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}