George Santayana

I learned to play crossword puzzle with my friend Marcelle for over 18 months while I worked in SCP. The trick, IMHO, is to fill in the known answer first and once you get more filled-in, the other, thougher, hints will be more obvious to you since you have more characters to base on from the previously filled-in answer.

I guess it is the same about knowledge. I went to the book store and browsed through a literary magazine last Saturday. I found out an article about George Santayana. I would have skipped it if it was two months ago. I got interested then and read through it. From the article, George, as a philosopher, was as famous as William James during the first few decades of the last century. Nowadays, he is much more obscured. I guess his "value" philosophy is not a good subject to debate in an "academy". It doesn't mean that he is a bad philosopher but just his philosophy is not an easy "subject-matter" to "debate" about in a class.