Comp. of Phil. postscript

It only took 6 minutes to whip those words of the Chapter 7 Introduction into shape. (They were written on Chapter 6’s time before I realized they worked better at the start of 7.)

So, it’s been 30 hours and 35 minutes to get 83 pretty good pages on this project so far. And that’s all for today, since I have more new faculty duties for the rest of the night.

The lesson of which I was reminded today was that turning infinite problems into finite ones is always a good idea. I solved about three daunting problems today simply by getting them out of my mind and into quasi-determinate form on a page. That’s one of several reasons that it’s a pretty good idea to write a lot rather than a little. Unarticulated problems can linger in the mind for years in a merely glacially evolving shape unless you try to put them in definite, communicable form. And though I hold that this is the end stage of a process rather than the starting point for thought and debate, there’s nothing wrong with speeding up the process a bit.