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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: 13 Dec 2024 20:28:07 GMT
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:13:50 +0100, D wrote:

> Zeno? Well, it does sound you made quite an attack on the first book out
> of 12!  My least favourite part of that series is the middle ages and
> the christian philosophers and theologians. For some reason, very, very
> uninteresting to me. But greek, yes, rome, yes, then nothing, up until
> the enlightenment, when things start to become interesting again.

I'd have to look at the ordering but I think that's where my interest 
petered out. I liked the Nominalists. Confirmation bias, I guess. My 
natural setting regards Platonic realism as a major wrong turn in thought.