By way of introduction, you might read these:

• 12 April 2005 (earlier)
• 25 July 2005
• 12 April 2005 (later)

(There is also an old, preliminary attempt at explanation and introduction which has been supplanted and made obsolete many times over. But it may be of historical interest.)

I live in Saint Paul and teach philosophy in Minneapolis.

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