{"id":1846,"date":"2012-11-29T17:28:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T21:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2013-08-29T21:46:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T01:46:22","slug":"analects-of-the-core-169-discourse-on-method-and-meditations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2012\/11\/29\/analects-of-the-core-169-discourse-on-method-and-meditations\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Descartes on quality in the flame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relating to the reading that the students of CC201 have done on Descartes&#8217; work, here is today&#8217;s analect:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although in approaching the flame I feel heat, and even though in approaching it a little too closely I feel pain, there is still no reason that can convince me that there is some quality in the flame similar to this heat, any more than to this pain. I only have reason to believe there is some quality in it, whatever it may be, which arouses in me these feelings of heat or pain. (<em>Meditations, [83][66])<\/em><em> <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relating to the reading that the students of CC201 have done on Descartes&#8217; work, here is today&#8217;s analect: Although in approaching the flame I feel heat, and even though in approaching it a little too closely I feel pain, there is still no reason that can convince me that there is some quality in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691,2534,3856,1],"tags":[3915,3934,37361,6877,3578],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1850,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}