Miscellaneous

Five Threads on  Traditonis Custodes

In recent years, there has been alarming degree of collaboration between the mainstream media giants, the social media giants, and leviathan...

Though I published most of these writing months ago, the Miscellaneous site has long served as a site where things are published which I ha...

Defining A New Term: It has been a long time since I have had recourse to this website but a recent circumstance seems to warrant it. My i...

Clarifying My Use of Various Jurisprudence Terms:   I have over the years used a variety of terms as they pertain to jurisprudence and court...

On A Key Principle Pertaining to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Incidents From 1945: The purpose of this posting is to clarify a point which I...

Defining the Term "Apologetics Oligarchy":    To start with, I really hope that someday I will be able to sunset this term as one...

Defining the Word "Torture"   (Since No One Else Will)  It is unfortunate that some intellectually dependent agenda provocateurs ...

A Workable Definition of Hypothesis: As I have used this term in the past and will likely do so even more in the future, it seems appropri...

Defining the Terms "Normative" and "Non-Normative": I have in the past year explicitly used these terms to explain key...

Defining The Term Carter Corollary For Future Discussion (and Posterity): Something Texas Fred wrote today gave me an idea for a shortha...

Defining Some Argumentation Fallacies: Though argumentation fallacies are a subject that has been covered many times at Rerum Novarum (an...

Clarifying My Policy Viz. Private Correspondence: Strangely enough, Rerum Novarum is fast approaching its 1800th posting and the subject ...

A Key Principle For Rational Argumentation: In the wake of the Rathergate scandal, there was a group of people who sought to argue along tw...

I have referred to the principle of McElhinney's Media Dictum explicitly in the past eight months at my weblog Rerum Novarum . This is...

The Process of Attempting to "Refute" a Theory or Thesis in a Piece of Writing: Often do we hear of a person or party who is beh...

I used the term a couple of times on my main weblog so it seems appropriate to add it to the defined terms if you will. The term being refer...

Defining the Terms "Theory" and "Thesis": Though I have utilized these terms in this manner before, I have never explici...

Confuting a Common Error of Self-styled 'Traditionalists': The following is one of the very few new sections written for the thi...

On the Use of Labels: Some have inquired as to my bringing up at times the fact that I transcend being easily "categorized." Indee...

The Definition of a True Conservative: The longer I have involved myself in dialogues, the clearer it is to me that there is a provincial na...

For those who read previous versions of the work I am about to refer to (either the one released on June 6, 2000 or the one from December 28...

Clarification on My Use of Terms: One thing I will not compromise on is my use of the term 'traditionalist' in the fashion where...

Profession of Faith: I, Shawn McElhinney, with firm faith believe and profess everything that is contained in the symbol of faith: namel...