”aspernatio rationalis” So that’s what it’s called. I’ve read hardly any Cicero, other than some political observations, so that explains that particular gap in my depressing lengthy inventory of ignorance. Now, the “refusal to apperceive” is a term I can dig. I guess I wasn’t too terribly far off on a practical level, if not on a philosophical level, when in the past I’ve used the expression, “blatant denial of the patently obvious.” But “refusal to apperceive” is a bell-ringer. Personally, though they would never admit it, I suspect that those people who deny free will are doing the equivalent of eyes shut, hands over ears, and going “La, La, La, La.”
Thanks betty, you’re a bell-ringer, as usual.
”aspernatio rationalis” So that’s what it’s called.
***Here’s another area where I encounter this phenomenon: in dealing with the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth. So I opened a thread on that.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2056400/posts
The Historicity of Jesus Christ [Open Thread under Religion Moderator’s Guidelines]
History | August 3, 2008 | Kevmo
Posted on Monday, August 04, 2008 1:19:19 PM by Kevmo