Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Insomnia downloads of the day

Don't feel like counting sheep? Try listening to this instead:

Sophistical Elenchi

by Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)
Translated by W.A. Pickard-Cambridge (1873-1952)

De Sophisticis Elenchis is the sixth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). In De Sophisticis Elenchis Aristotle identifies 13 falacies. Verbal Fallacies are: Accent or Emphasis; Amphibology; Equivocation; Composition; Division and Figure of Speech. Material Fallacies are: Accident; Affirming the Consequent; Converse Accident; Irrelevant Conclusion; Begging the Question; False Cause and Fallacy of Many Questions. (Adapted from Wikipedia)

No ArtBell in your area? Never fear:

Unidentified Flying Objects by United States Federal Bureau of Investigation is on line.

OR you could listen to other "good for your soul" type downloads that make Oprah's advice look wimpy, such as:

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

or you might want to listen to the R rated version:

The Curtezan Unmasked

by Anonymous

"The Curtezan unmasked or, the Whoredomes of Jezebel Painted to the Life: With Antidotes against them, or Heavenly Julips to cool Men in the Fever of Lust" is a fire-and-brimstone polemic by "A Spiritual Physician" to persuade young men not to succumb to harlotry and its accompanying perils. (Introduction by Denny Sayers)

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