{"id":356,"date":"2012-01-27T15:05:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T15:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=356"},"modified":"2015-12-29T15:08:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T15:08:17","slug":"montaigne-and-st-augustine-of-course-were-never-das","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Montaigne and St. Augustine, of course, were never DAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-357\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120127Montaigne.jpg\" alt=\"120127Montaigne\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>Jan. 27, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">In \u201cThe Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal\u201d (2002), James Franklin points out that Montaigne opposed witch trials for their lack of evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cI am of St. Augustine\u2019s opinion,\u201d Montaigne wrote, \u201cthat \u2018\u202f\u2019tis better to lean towards doubt than assurance, in things hard to prove and dangerous to believe\u2019&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cAfter all, \u2019tis setting a man\u2019s conjectures at a very high price, upon them to cause a man to be roasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 27, 2012 In \u201cThe Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal\u201d (2002), James Franklin points out that Montaigne opposed witch trials for their lack of evidence. \u201cI am of St. Augustine\u2019s opinion,\u201d Montaigne wrote, \u201cthat \u2018\u202f\u2019tis better to lean towards doubt than assurance, in things hard to prove and dangerous to believe\u2019&#8230;. \u201cAfter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}