DeCent

DeCent was the name I'd planned for this blog. Unfortunately the blog name was already taken: so DeCentSee it will have to be instead. The play on "decent" I trust is obvious: the play on decentralize is key.

DeCentSee's purpose is to rescue essays posted online since the mid-1990s but persecuted as of the past couple of years. All materials were previously posted, all materials are copyright protected, the persecuted author temporarily not named here for his protection.

Astute readers will know who it is, and so would his persecutors should they chance to pay attention.

The first pieces I select for remounting are classics from the author's Thinking Tools collection.


Understand, I am remounting classic modules from an unpublished author whose domains were persecuted, forced off-line.

Much of the cream of them concerns epistemology, science, reason ... and were first digitized in the middle to late 1990s. I recommend that you start reading the files first posted here: that is, start at the bottom of the menu. Reverse blog chronology is the actual chronology.

The original posts were replete with cross reference links. Until they're working again, this version is unavoidably crippled. In time I hope to add an explanation of what went wrong with the author's right to speak.

Dates: I plan to revise the posts to indicate the date of original posting

thusly.

Scrapbooks: The author typically sketches something, posts it, redrafts it, reposts it ... As time passes effects of stylistic unity may suffer, but it's the content not the style that I care about in didactic writing. Where points are just strung I typically put them in a second file and called them a scrapbook. Her scrapbook additions will go below a full-width line like this one:

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