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I am an independent scholar from Lethbridge, Alberta. I am all-but-thesis for a masters in philosophy. My research interests include the social aspects of belief acquisition and maintenance, language, and rhetoric. I also have an artsy bent and enjoy photography, painting, and graphic narratives. I live with my husband, Paul, a social and political philosopher, Barsi, a Border Collie-Pyrenees cross, Howard, a German Shepherd-Bernese-Pyrenees cross puppy, and two cats, Mr. Tinky and Rorschach. Paul and I have three wonderful sons and their three respective equally wonderful partners between us.

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Be Your Authentic Self.

  By pammentations on January 16, 2021 • ( 0 )

  You’ve nothing to fear. See also Thoughtlets. iii.

• Thoughtlets. XXIX.

  By pammentations on January 12, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Freedom! is a common rallying cry that some pledge to fight to the death to defend. And do. So it might be a tad unseemly to point out that ‘freedom’ is not a well-formed formula. By which is meant ‘freedom’… Read More ›

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Uncovering An Implicit Bias.

  By pammentations on January 11, 2021 • ( 0 )

  I recommend Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s entry on Implicit Bias. Brownstein, Michael, “Implicit Bias”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2019/entries/implicit-bias/ (*link repaired — P)

• Thoughtlets. xxviii.

  By pammentations on January 7, 2021 • ( 0 )

  It’s no small annoyance whenever an interlocutor stops to evaluate whether what I have just said falls on the political left or the right. In so doing she’s pegging me to a side. And once pegged, in her mind, whether… Read More ›

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. The University of Backyard Sleepovers.

  By pammentations on January 3, 2021 • ( 0 )

  At U.B.S., 8-year-olds archive banned words for posterity. We honour Children’s Ways of Being and Children’s Ways of Knowing. See, Paranormal Activism And, A Speakeasy in the Age of Prohibition

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Paranormal Activism. (scroll past image)

  By pammentations on December 19, 2020 • ( 2 )

  When you deny my ‘lived experience’, you deny my existence! We, the undersigned, petition our flesh and bone (zombies excluded) oppressors to recognize the following, Article 1. We are beings who refer to ourselves as ghosts. All other terms of… Read More ›

• Thoughlets. xxvii.

  By pammentations on December 12, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Two SJW slogans are: Silence is Violence and Words are Violence.  If silence is violence, then one must speak. But words are violence. If words are violence, then one must be silent. But silence is violence. To avoid absurdity, the SJW must stipulate… Read More ›

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. “‘Tis not contrary to reason …” David Hume. (scroll down, see comments)

  By pammentations on December 12, 2020 • ( 2 )

  Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature. Book II, Part III, Section III, Of… Read More ›

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. “Does he not there as much accuse mankind by his actions as I do by my words?” Thomas Hobbes.

  By pammentations on December 5, 2020 • ( 1 )

  It may seem strange to some man that has not well weighed these things that nature should thus dissociate and render men apt to invade and destroy one another; and he may therefore, not trusting to this inference, made from… Read More ›

• Saturday Morning Pam-toons. Retrain?

  By pammentations on November 21, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Resume EduCCATION — Grade 8 WORK EXPEANE (experience) – Labour 49 YRs [The writing is authentic.]