Apr
4
Quantum Textual Differences
April 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Some of you may remember that I have been reading through the Greek NT as part of my “Lenten exercises.” Although I’ve done this every Lent for nearly 15 years, I think I benefited from doing this more this year than I have in a long time; in the near future I plan to post [...]
Apr
1
Magical Thinking
April 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Imagine an educational environment in which something like the following scenarios would be possible.
First, imagine a class in elementary mathematics where the teacher is required, by state law, to allow his students to define mathematical functions any way they like. Generally speaking, for example, the “addition” function takes numbers as inputs and gives other numbers [...]