Blogs capture a moment in time. The most recent entry appears first, followed in reverse chronological order by any previous entries. This works fine so long as no logical dependency exists between postings. But what if an earlier essay serves as the premiss or justification for a later one? Then extending priority to the most recent fails.
I've tried to find a way to make Google's Blogger display posts in chronological sequence, with the oldest appearing first. But it seems there is no way to do this. I rather like Blogger otherwise, in particular the way it automatically formats the blog for easy reading on smartphones and tablets as well as computers. I prefer to focus on creating content rather than engineering how it displays; therefore I have established this workaround. I made a table of contents which index my entries in chronological order. I recommend that if you are new to my blog, that you read it starting from the beginning by clicking through the contents in order. Once you have caught up, you may simply read posts as they appear. Hopefully this will permit me to make — and for you to follow — more extended arguments permitting logical development.
Thank you for taking the time to read my words. Feel free to correct me. For a philosopher, no greater honor exists than to be corrected because we desire truth more than being right!
Dear Leland,
ReplyDeleteI have only recently discovered Blogger and somehow found your entries, it seems to be almost impossible to find any Blogs, let alone deciding who to follow, sometimes Google bewilders me in regards to how difficult they make things to navigate and understand.
However, I am very interested in your comments and would like to hear more from you, I see your last entry was a year ago. Do you plan to continue?