For my fifth birthday, my parents presented me with a Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary. Perhaps a strange gift at that age yet I was thrilled as I could already read. Although it would be many years before I argued Aristotelian against Existential predicate logic and the Objectivism of Ayn Rand, at my then young age I instantly realized that if there was something written that I did not understand, I could look it up and learn. The door was open and I am happy to say that I did go through it.