1. a laptop computer
2. a laptop computer powercord
3. a travel-sized roll-on deoderant
4. One-A-Day Energy vitamins
5. an Ocean nasal spray
6. 2 checkbooks
7. 5 membership cards
8. a gun
CONTENTS OF MY NIGHTSTAND
1. earplugs
2. a razor blade
3. vitamin C tablets
4. a Men’s Fitness magazine
5. a 1 dollar bill
6. a small photo album
7. an iTunes gift card
8. a gun
CONTENTS OF MY HEART
1. an aorta
2. a superior vena cava
3. a right atrium
4. a left atrium
5. a cardiac muscle
6. a pulmonary artery
7. an inferior vena cava
8. a gun
So the logic of explication calls for the principle of a regression of infinitum: there is no reason for the recoubling of reasonings ever to stop. What brings an end to the regression and gives the system its foundation is simply that the explicator is the sole judge of the point when the explication is itself explicated.
—Jacques Ranciere, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation
Robert Fitzpatrick. the retired MTA employee who famously gave his entire life savings to publicize The Rapture with Family Radio, reacts to the false alarm and some questions from the crowd.
An affirmative conclusion from a negative premise argues two universal premises and a particular conclusion which elicits major undistributed middles from affirmative premises. Structural flaws over content appeal to law, ignorance, repetition, and begs the question: the consequence of the phenomenon is its root logical disjunction?
