No Post Today

I'd intended to write a post today about Susan Stebbing and the second dogma of empiricism, but through a combination of it being a more challenging topic and this Friday having more distractions than usual, it got to the point where I realized that wasn't going to be happening today, so you're getting this post instead.

Regular readers will recall that I'd hoped that by getting into a routine from writing frivolous posts I'd be able to send more substantial posts down the production line and produce them in a timely manner. On the other hand, I mentioned a couple of philosophy posts that I said I was proud of but wouldn't have been able to write quickly, and so I shouldn't really be surprised that the one I had planned for today has been taking a bit longer.

It is, without doubt, a setback, but I still hope to be able to have a post for you about Stebbing and reductionism in the next couple of weeks. I guess I'll keep working on it on off days and put it into the schedule when it's ready. But hopefully it won't get torpedoed by the kind of perfectionism that'd been keeping me from writing much in the past. What I will say is that I should be careful not to go into next Friday expecting to get it finished and then find myself unable to, so hopefully if you don't get that one you'll get something more interesting than this one. Or at least something longer.

I'm sure you're all as disappointed about this as I am, but I'm still new to regular blogging and still learning my limitations, and I won't let it get me down. I'm happy enough with how I've handled this setback. See you next week!