The guilty can be acquitted. This is, in fact, a core characteristic of the legal system. I first realized this while reading Oliver Wendell Holmes' The Life of the Law. He wrote, "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience." This statement made me re-examine...
Some nights, the world seems structurally complete, enough to reveal its secrets. I toss and turn, pondering the quiet impossibility at the heart of learning. Children listen to fragments of language and extract an entire grammar. Birds gaze at the stars and know their direction of migration. Mathematicians stare at...
There are nights when the world feels almost structured enough to reveal its secret. I lie awake thinking about the quiet impossibility at the center of learning. A child hears scattered fragments of language and somehow extracts the grammar of an entire tongue. A bird sees the stars rotating overhead...