what is truth Post Source: www.alistbloggers.org Posted: Dec 02 2008 20:45:00
philosophers have been trying to answer that question for millennia and there are lots of opinions. lots . theres an entire branch of philosophy that focuses on this. metaphysics what is realepistemology what is trueethics what is rightaesthetics what is beautiful ah the benefits of a liberal arts education however in the modern world and more specifically on...... [Show More]
once upon a time the american people could actually think. they had to. life did not come to them all prepackaged. a certain level of critical intelligence was absolutely vital for everyday survival.
this was quite different from europeans at the time who were still oppressed by a stultifying conservative political and who for the most part simply lived their lives as ther...... [Show More]
bob stein was kind enough to invite me to a conversation with the historians stephen brier joshua brown ellen noonan penee bender who wrote and maintain who built america working people and the nations history . the first edition of that text was accompanied by a cdrom which was designed by bob steins company with the worlds first crossword no less...... [Show More]
twice in the past week i have been confronted in debates with the question that thomas aquinas and others have used in a theological context why is there something rather than nothing
i dont want to dwell on whether this justifies the existence of god. rather id like to point out that physics has largely answered this question at least if it is reframed a...... [Show More]
...n fejlslutning jeg skriver om her
httpwww .fallacyfi les.orgmo dalfal.htm l
stanford encyclopedia of philosophy om modallogik. de navner fejlen lige far afsnittet om deontic logic
httppla to.stanfor d.eduentr ieslogic modal...... [Show More]
common sense folly Post Source: www.radicalavenue.com Posted: Nov 25 2008 12:00:33
the earth has always been the center of the universe common sense circa 1508.
we can tell if someone is a witch by throwing them in the river to see if they float common sense circa 1708.
nothing will ever replace the horse and buggy common sense circa 1908.
our government needs to take a more common sense approach to solving probl...... [Show More]
...ow nations behave 2nd edition new york columbia university press 1979 47.
4 the stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. prisoners dilemma stanford university httppla to.stanfor d.eduentr iesprison erdilemma accessed november 20 2008.
5 jack l. goldsmith and eric a. posner. the limits of international law oxford oxford university press 2005 2932.
6 andrew t. guzman. ... [Show More]
this is somewhat of a follow up to my playful post on absolute truth . read the comment there too for a nice follow up.a here i explore the validity of laws of nature as a concept.a it appears more and more at least to me that our stated laws of nature are as betrand russell says they are statistical averages such as would emerge from the laws of chance...... [Show More]
artist
war
album
the best of war and more
year
1987
genre
rock
tracks
13
song
time
1. war livin in the red.mp3
343
2. war low rider.mp3
314
3. war the cisco kid.mp3
353
4. war slippin into darkness.mp3
347
5. war me and baby brother.mp3
3...... [Show More]
analogier Post Source: deleet.dk Posted: Nov 20 2008 15:41:18
...r essentielt i alle analogiske argumenter.
lasestof
wikipedia om analogier
httpen. wikipedia. orgwikia nalogy
sep har ikke meget om analogier men jeg fandt alligevel dette
httppla to.stanfor d.eduentr iesanalog ymedieval
det omtalte essay. jeg anbefaler meget kraftigt at lase dette omtrent 26 sider
juthe a. 2005. argument by analogy in argumentation 2005 19 127...... [Show More]
webcomics Post Source: funnygoodbyeletters.org Posted: Nov 20 2008 14:49:46
nu sunt mare cunoscator dar imi plac foarte mult astea doua
1. xkcd a webcomic of romance sarcasm math and language. primul post pe care lam vazut a fost asta si ma convins sa dau un bookmark xckd xkcdului.
btw intro revista stu denteasca 8221 de it distribuita gratuit prin universitatea bucuresti erau plagiate mai multe epi soade822 1...... [Show More]
i hear lots of folks in the prolife side of the abortion debate insist on characterizing those on the other side of the debate as pro abortion. quotnbsp they insist that being pro abortionq uot and pro choicequo t are really just two different labels for the same thing. of course if these really are just two different labels for same thing then why insist on using ...... [Show More]
a set of properties a supervenes upon another set b just in case no two things can differ with respect to aproperties without also differing with respect to their bproperties. in slogan form there cannot be an adifference without a bdifference. supervenience stanford encyclopedia of philosophy...... [Show More]
this post will serve as a collecting place for some of the greatest content ive come upon over the course of my lifetime. the aim is to only have on this page content that invokes a gasp or a silence when learning of it for the first time.
these are not in order and the list will grow rapidly in the beginning. if you think something should be added please let me know in the comments or...... [Show More]
do you believe in the existence of universal morality the one common to all human beings or do you subscribe to theory of moral relativism the one which holds that the ethical standards of right and wrong are culturally based and thus vary from one person to another i think that this moral relativism is a plague that fits in perfectly in the framework of the contemporary mainstream multicul...... [Show More]
alright the evolution post was fun. but now back to more serious stuff. this post has to do with neuroscience. here im questioning a pretty mainstream view and not a weird obscure view like 0.9991 or imaginary numbers. im questioning the theory of pain projection which actually has surprisingly decent reasoning behind it. but that cant stop the truth fro...... [Show More]
politics of the future Post Source: kenanthony.bustablog.com Posted: Nov 17 2008 00:47:32
how will space colonization affect the political alignments in the future near future not much will change i would like to look further down the road and consider how what we do today might impact that.
first i believe in liberty. nationalism should serve the purpose of protecting the individual from tyranny. i also believe that nationalism is itself a form of tyranny.
statism is ...... [Show More]
are there any absolute truths
if no then is that an absolute truth
refer to tarskis undefinability theorem .
i enjoyed this guys write up on some details of the theorem.
or maybe you want to play with coherence theory
or maybe you should just see how others arbitrage the search for truth in pursuit of google rank
hahahahah.
peace.
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in francis beckwith finally disowns id bill dembski and a number of others have offered a variety of comments about this piece the truth about me and intelligent design.
honestly beckwith disowning id reminds me of a guy divorcing his wife ten years after shes run off with the plumber. the question isnt why frankie why but w...... [Show More]
one reason i believe that fundamental values constrain our valuations however loose such constraints may often be is that i have been fortunateato witness and participate in two intellectual revolutions that have clearly improved our understanding of the world.a in each case iahad earlyaexposure to a new sci ence8221 thatawas something of a fringe movement.a but a...... [Show More]
robert l. parks book on voodoo science has a great deal of wisdom to offer to the prospective franchisee or distributor and their investigations about the income generating opportunity. in science the no free lunch rule from the social world is recast as conservation of energy or you cannot get something for nothing.
instead of the income gener...... [Show More]
i mentioned a couple posts ago a brief essay on happiness at culture11 which i largely agreed with now i will quote from one in the same series on happiness but this one is by will wilkinson which i find selfevidentially absurd and it saddens me to know that clearly not everyone agrees
more interesting and much more compelling were those who chose to admit t...... [Show More]
pure silliness ahead.
a lot of people know that the lyric from kanye wests str onger822 1 nnnow that that dont kill me can only make me stronger is sort of a nietzsche quote. well i happened to be reading nietzsche today then heard str onger822 1 on the way home then the idea for a post came to me. plus a t...... [Show More]
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