How Many Angels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?

Ed Newman
2 min readOct 18, 2018

And what do the questions we ask say about us?

Light painting by the author.

Don’t know why I had this thought a few years ago, but I decided to see what I could find about the notion by doing a little Googling. Evidently, the roots of the question come from an effort by medieval thinkers to apply logic and rational analysis to heretofore “spiritual” questions. These efforts toward increasing specificity…

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Ed Newman

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