Abortion Supporters Believe In Magic
Stream: Abortion Supporters Believe In Magic Ireland has a Minister for Children named Katherine Zappone. Zappone supports abortion. She was asked about the “inherent contradiction” between her support...
View ArticleYou Don’t Have Free Will, Which Is Why You Make Such Bad Choices
Stream: You Don’t Have Free Will, Which Is Why You Make Such Bad Choices There is a special kind of stupid achievable only by the intelligent (I resemble this remark). I’d ask you to pardon me for such...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Evil is Based on the Good
Previous post. We have a very easy week, a short chapter defining how evil is in a good thing, and what that means. This is a mopping up chapter, collecting the threads of the weeks before. We’re not...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Evil Does not Wholly Destroy the Good
Previous post. A hint of the calculus and a reminder all acts intend a definite good, even when the act results in an evil. That Evil Does not Wholly Destroy the Good 1 It is evident from the foregoing...
View ArticleEdge’s Last Question
The guy who runs Edge, the site we’ve had some fun with over the years, has decided he’s run out of interesting questions. So to go out with a noise, which you’ll have to judge is a bang or a poof, he...
View ArticleScience Is Not The Most Important Subject
Stream: Science Is Not The Most Important Subject What’s with all the kowtowing to science among religious folks? As soon as a scientist, or science cheerleader, starts talking about the “unbridgeable”...
View ArticleScientists Prove There Is Life After Death?
Headline: “British And German Scientists Prove There Is Life After Death.” Thanks to reader Mark Charters for discovering the study. British and German scientists have confirmed there is some form of...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Evil Has A Cause
Previous post. Two chapters this week on the (non-controversial) claim that evil must have a cause. The nature of this cause is, however, of some interest. That Evil Has A Cause of Some Sort 1 From...
View ArticleInfinity — Part 1 of N
We’ve discussed infinity before, but since the subject in inexhaustible, we’re discussing it again. Infinity comes in sizes, as many readers know. What’s less appreciated is how these sizes relate to...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: There Is No Highest Evil
Previous post. The good is “that which all things desire.” With that, and in these two chapters, we wrap up the subject of evil. We next time move to the good, and what that ultimately is. It’s getting...
View ArticleThe Existence of Ideal Entities — Guest Post by the Cranky Professor
In this essay, I shall argue that meanings, as expressed in language and thought, are timeless, immaterial and extra-mental entities. I will defend the views of Bernard Bolzano, Frege and some of the...
View ArticleAgainst Moldbug’s Reservationist Epistemology: Reason Alone Is Not Reasonable
For most, Mencius Moldbug will need no introduction; for those who do not know him, this review of his work is succinct (which Moldbug never was) and fair. We’ll not discuss his political ideas today...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: All Things Are Ordered To God
Previous post. Some simple and, I hope, non-controversial (accepting that which came before) proofs that God is the ultimate end. That All Things Are Ordered to One End Who Is God 1 It is,...
View ArticleRichard Dawkins’ Cannibalism Suggestion is Hard to Digest
Part of a high protein, low reason diet Don’t accept any dinner invitations to Richard Dawkin’s house. You might be asked to swallow more than his bizarre idea that God doesn’t exist. If you do do,...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: How God Is The End Of All Things
Previous post. A continuation of last week’s lesson. Two Chapter this week. How God Is The End Of All Things 1 Now, it appears that the preceding view may be opposed by certain arguments. 2 The...
View ArticleLee Strobel Asks, “Are Miracles Real & Still Happening?”
Lee Strobel is best known for his book The Case for Christ, which details his immense effort to prove Jesus was not the Son of God. He failed. And he failed for the best reason there is: you cannot...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: How Things Imitate Divine Goodness
Previous post. In which our God saint defines his terms. Be careful to use the words in the sense he used them, at least while discussing him. How things imitate divine goodness 1 From what has been...
View ArticleOh, Hell
Hell either exists or it does not, a tautological statement, and therefore necessarily true. If it does not, then you have nothing to worry about, nothing to be sorry for, and there is nothing you need...
View ArticleQuantum Potency & Probability
A note on a complex subject. Ed Feser points us to the paper “An Aristotelian Approach to Quantum Mechanics” by Gil Sanders, and in turn Sanders points us to “Taking Heisenberg’s Potentia Seriously” by...
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The Gremlins Of MCMC: Or, Computer Simulations Are Not What You Think
I don’t think we’re clear on what simulation is NOT. RANDOMNESS IS NOT NECESSARY, for the simple reason randomness is merely a state of knowledge. Hence this classic post from 12 June 2017. “Let me get...
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