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Quantum Mechanics, Potentiality, Ontology, Epistemology, & Probability
What is and what is known about what is are two concepts which are often entangled, especially in quantum mechanics (puns intentional). This is one of the subjects which I cover in my upcoming book,...
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Why Is Economics Plagued By Math?
The answer is easy: because math is numbers and numbers are measurement and measurements are necessary to make a subject “scientific” in the modern sense of that word. Why should economics be turned...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Failed Arguments For The Eternity Of The...
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....
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Stream: Pretend to Believe In Free Will Or Else You Will Make Bad Choices
Today’s post is at The Stream: Pretend to Believe In Free Will Or Else You Will Make Bad Choices. I want to be nice about this, but believing that we do not have free will is dumb. If you’re stung by...
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The Bayesian Metaphor Can Do More Harm Than Good: Update
A Bayesian bat. Quoting from a post on vampires, “In Bayesian inference, you start with some initial beliefs (called ‘Bayesian priors’ or just ‘priors’), and then you ‘update’ them as you receive new...
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Animals Aren’t Men, Even If Government Says So
I once saw, with mine own eyes, a squirrel steal an acorn from a second squirrel. This shouldn’t be surprising; squirrels are career criminals and everybody knows it. Think of how often the beasts...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Arguments Against The World Being Eternal
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. We...
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A Brief Explanation Of Occam’s Razor
We’re interested in whether some proposition Y is true. One explanation, perhaps causal or deterministic, or even only probabilistic, is X. Thus, Pr(Y | X) is high or equals 1. A second explanation,...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Chance Is Not A Cause
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Be...
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The I-Have-Big-Muscles Fallacy
Harvard graduate walks down the street where a 50-lb sack of cement blocks his way. He reaches down to shift it but discovers that despite all his might the bulk won’t budge. He says to any who will...
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Are We Special? New Thoughts about the Anthropic Principle — Guest Post by...
Editor’s note This post first appeared at Kurland’s home site. My criticisms follow. “Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth – the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue...
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Real Philosophy Is Science — Guest Post by Old David
Editor’s note: Old David, a.k.a. David Marwick from Australia, is familiar from the comment pages, and I thought it would be fun if he were on the receiving end of criticisms. He graciously agreed....
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Matter Doesn’t Always Matter
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Good And Evil Aren’t Wholly Opposites
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post....
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Summary Against Modern Thought: First Causes In The Distinction Of Things
This may be proved in three ways. The first…See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. No...
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The Genetic Fallacy: He Works For An Oil Company!
The COMT gene “for” altruism is mighty selfish. I’m on the road for the next several days and won’t always have access to the Internet. So I’m reposting a series of classic fallacies. Regular service...
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Ad Hominem, My Sweet
I’m on the road for the next several days and won’t always have access to the Internet. So I’m reposting a series of classic fallacies. Regular service to resume early next week. This post originally...
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The Wrong-Side-Of-History Fallacy
Ride ’em, cowboys! I’m on the road for the next several days and won’t always have access to the Internet. So I’m reposting a series of classic fallacies. Regular service to resume early next week....
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The So’s-Your-Old-Man Fallacy
I’m on the road for the next several days and won’t always have access to the Internet. So I’m reposting a series of classic fallacies. Regular service to resume early next week. This post originally...
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The Apes Do It So It’s Fine For Us Fallacy
I’m doing five to ten for apeslaughter.< I’m on the road for the next several days and won’t always have access to the Internet. So I’m reposting a series of classic fallacies. Regular service to...
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