One of the reasons I blog is to put out stuff to see how others react to it. This is to ultimately modify and improve …. the stuff. I was rather amused a while back when we were discussing racist science, and I was accused of intentionally putting stuff out there to see what reactions it would get, with the long term idea of modifying and improving my stuff.<\/p>\n
Apparently, this is called “Trolling one’s own blog.”<\/p>\n
Well, I’m in good company.<\/p>\n
\nIt turns out that Ren\u00c3\u00a9 Descartes trolled his own community of letters, which is what they did back in the 17th century instead of blogging. One of his “posts” … which had disappeared during the 19th century when it was stolen along with a bunch of other documents presumably by Philosophy Denialists … had turned up, and it is an example of this.<\/p>\n
The letter, dated May 27, 1641, concerns the publication of “Meditations on First Philosophy,” a celebrated work whose use of reason and scientific methods helped to ignite a revolution in thought.<\/p>\n
The document, experts say, reveals just how much Descartes tailored his writings to answer his contemporary critics. Frequently suspected of heresy, Descartes sent copies of his arguments to well-known theologians to gauge their opinions and answer their objections within his text.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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