On this page, you will find three kinds of entries:

Corrections
The first one’s up, finally. I knew it would come.

Amendmends
Where I changed my mind; none so far.

Supplements
New ideas that expand on the book’s topics; one’s already in the pipeline.

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Last stop: the Journal.

Corrections

January 28, 2025

When I quoted Aristotle on the matter of “choice” on page 165, I relied on the most common translation and checked the source only perfunctorily. (In case you wonder, I have what’s called the German Graecum, a national certificate for Ancient Greek, but I’m not especially good at it and Ancient Greek is hard). Today, however, I had to go deeper into the weeds for a paper I’m working on, and it turns out that the translation I used wasn’t necessarily wrong, but misleading. (Loeb’s a bit better, but puzzlingly rephrased.) According to my own translation, the highly imaginative follow-up interpretation I offered in Ludotronics—“But, as a second layer of meaning, it might also convey the sense that a person’s decisions ‘determine’ that person’s character or nature”—appears too far-fetched now to be viable. Sorry about that! (Aristotle, based on my own translation, seems to be saying that choice is the best tool to test a person’s character (virtue), and that the nature (virtuousness) of an action can be better determined by the decision that led to it than the action itself.)