Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Fri, 13 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:13:50 +0100, D wrote:
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Zeno? Well, it does sound you made quite an attack on the first book out
of 12!  My least favourite part of that series is the middle ages and
the christian philosophers and theologians. For some reason, very, very
uninteresting to me. But greek, yes, rome, yes, then nothing, up until
the enlightenment, when things start to become interesting again.

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I'd have to look at the ordering but I think that's where my interest
petered out. I liked the Nominalists. Confirmation bias, I guess. My
natural setting regards Platonic realism as a major wrong turn in thought.
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Amen! The nominalists were (are) the Donald Trump of metaphysicists!