A Budget of Bons Mots (VI)

Ontological bon-bons  for the busy businessman:

If we reject the ontologicalargument, we seem driven to conclude that the existence of a world is anaccident.

the sort of groveling relativism that avers, hand on heart, that the math and the physics of the Patagonians  is just as valid as that of Harvard and MIT -- a convenient doctrine which,  among other things,  excuses the student from the need of ever taking a science class…

The concrete, particular cosmos in which we temporarily find ourselves, need no more directly or insightfully reflect the creative, ontological ultimate ground thereof, than the particular grit and consistency of the wafer, gives a hint of the Real Presence.

Aleksandrov, in his splendid  essay on Non-Euclidean Geometry, is quite concerned to defend mathematics from any charge of being a “just-so story”.

It is related, that Stefan Banach (on whom be peace) did one day go strolling along the Kurfürstendamm …

I have just discovered an ingenious proof of God’s non-existence, which we may dub the Proctological Argument.