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Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Causation In Chauvin

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Is it this? Do you agree it’s this: Defense: if factors like the his heart problem, his drug intake, his tumor, carbon monoxide, his occlud...

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Putting “Putting The Lyric In Its Place” In Its Place

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The essay: https://search.proquest.com/docview/1299903305?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true My note to a friend: My basic beef wit...

Saturday, April 3, 2021

Standard Deviation

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I’d define it as the average distance of all the numbers of a data set away(up or down) from their mean; the math to get it is a little cu...

Friday, March 26, 2021

A Note To A Friend On The Subject Of Forgiveness

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I’ve done my share of forgiving and even more so have been forgiven but I haven’t thought much about forgiveness as such. To the extent th...

Sunday, March 21, 2021

Some Friendly Back And Forth With A Friend About What Poetry Does And How We Approach It

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Me: To say a poem says something about something doesn’t make it a syllogism to be held to logical rigour. It’s poetry not philosophy. Poetr...

Saturday, March 13, 2021

My Response To John McWhorter’s Piece About The Firing Of Georgetown Law Prof Sellers

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John McWhorter: https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/so-there-was-a-law-professor-at-georgetown Me: Dear Professor McWhorter: A few points ...

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

A Response To A Friend About An Older Essay By Stanley Fish Denying There’s Such A Thing As Free Speech

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Fish: https://web.english.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Fish_FreeSpeech.pdf Me: Fish’s argument is that there’s no such thing as free sp...

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itzik basman: I got my B.A. in English Literature from the University of British Columbia ("U.B.C."). I got my Secondary School Teaching Certificate from U.B.C. and my Masters degree in English Literature from U.B.C. writing my 125 page Masters' Thesis on the novels of Mordecai Richler. I attended Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, graduating with my Juris Doctor . After articling and completing the Ontario Bar Admissions Course, I was called to the bar in Ontario. I have practiced law to date in Toronto, specializing in Family Law, Civil Litigation, and Appellate Advocacy. I have pleaded cases in all civil Ontario courts, including many times in the Ontario Court of Appeal, as well as the Supreme Court of Canada. I practice law under the firm name Itzik Basman Barrister, James Rose, my former associate, having died January 23, 2011. I published on line in 2004 my extended essay on "Hamlet, entitled Futility As Tragedy: An Interpretation Of Hamlet". It can be found at Lulu.Com. It was critically reviewed both in Kritikos and Politics and Culture. I live in Toronto.

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