FD logic publications
The World Does Not Fit into a Single Answer
A dispute over the redesign of a city street is rarely about painted lines alone. The shopkeeper watches how many drivers can stop nearby. The parent walking a child to school notices the length of the crossing and the timing of the lights. The cyclist thinks about opening car do...
Debate Is Not a Duel
A family argument begins with a delay. One person says: you failed to let me know again. The other replies: it was only ten minutes. The first hears a problem of reliability; the second hears an attempt at control. They refer to the same evening, yet they are measuring different...
How Much Can a Sentence Carry?
Context, meaning, and the moment a short answer outgrows the job it was built to do What colour is the sky? Blue. For a child’s drawing, that is a perfectly serviceable answer. It usually works in casual conversation as well. In an atmospheric optics exam it is insufficient, and...
After Critique, Something Remains
A plan to rebuild a public square can be dismantled with ease. The traffic model is too optimistic. The consultation process gives residents the appearance of influence rather than meaningful control. The cost estimate excludes part of the maintenance burden. The rendering shows...
Awe Without Mystification
An old recording shows people running toward a collapsing building while every sensible reflex points the other way. Another scene holds on a hospital corridor, where someone waits with a parcel for a stranger. Then a familiar piece of music reaches the passage that has produced...
Literature as a Laboratory of Consequences
Hamlet has reason to doubt. Faust has reason to be dissatisfied. Adam has reason to keep asking whether human history has a direction that will not be consumed by its own consequences. None of this establishes that they act well. One of literature's strengths is precisely that it...
Gods Are Not Laboratory Notebooks
Apollo holds an awkward number of functions together. He is bright and distant. He gives oracles, orders music, heals, and at the beginning of the Iliad sends plague into the Achaean camp with his arrows. The epithet “Phoebus” means bright or radiant, while Delphic Apollo became...
