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Why Not Only Us? Men Speak, Animals Make Noise
A review of the book Why Only Us: Language and Evolution by Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky. Everybody knows, or used to know, that only men speak. Animals make noise, but men make words. A tweet or a...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: God is in Charge of Everything
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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The Static Theory of Time and Free Will — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
It is often argued that if the block universe theory of time is correct then people lack free will. The reason for this contention is because on a B-theory of time, future events already exist and so...
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Every Agent Acts for an End
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....
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Every Agent Acts for a Good
Previous post. Every agent acts for what it thinks is a good, even if it misses the mark. That every agent acts for a good 1 Next after this we must show that every agent acts for a good. 2 That every...
View ArticleThere Is No “Problem” Of Old Evidence In Bayesian Theory
Update I often do a poor job setting the scene. Today we have the solution to an age-old problem (get it? get it?), a “problem” thought to be a reason not to adopt (certain aspects of) Bayesian theory...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Evil is Not Intended
Previous post. Evil is not intended, but it often results because of lack of knowledge of The Good or the will is not directed toward The Good. That evil in things is not intended 1 From this it is...
View ArticleReason’s Greetings!, Say Brights to Supers
Stream: Reason’s Greetings!, Say Brights to Supers Our Summa Contra Gentiles series continues after New Years. The email salutation began “Reason’s Greetings”. It continued: Friends. Family. Food....
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Evil is Not Intended, Part II
Previous post. We continue with the proof that evil is not intended, with some seemingly convincing counter-arguments, and the answers to these. Two Chapters this week. Arguments which seem to prove...
View ArticleJaws and the Meaning of Life
Stream: What the Atheist Claim of the Meaninglessness of Life Would Mean (If it were True) Links fixed! There is a scene early on in the killer-shark movie Jaws which has marine biologist Matt Hooper...
View ArticleFalsifiability Is Falsifiable
We’ve talked many times before, and at greater length in Uncertanity, about the concept of falsifiability. It has come up again lately. The term shouldn’t be but is equivocal. I mean it is used in an...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Evil Is Not An Essence
Previous post. Evil is a lack, not an attribute. We as shorthand like to say it is an attribute, but that is all this is: shorthand, a metaphor. Here we need be precise. Next week some purported...
View ArticleFire and Fury: It’s False, That’s How We Know It’s True
Stream: The False-But-True Fallacy There’s concern in the City of Others Riches (Washington D.C.) that Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury book about the Trump White House contains as much truth as an...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Why You Might Say Evil Is A Thing
Previous post. Today some purported counter-examples to this assertion are given, along with their rebuttals. As far as coming speaking about evil, see paragraph 5 and 6 from the second chapter....
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Why You Might Say Evil Is A Thing, Part II
Previous post. These are the rebuttals to the arguments presented last week. Review! Answers to these arguments 1 It is not difficult to answer these arguments. Evil and good are assigned as specific...
View ArticleThere Can Be No Consistent Atheist System Of Morality Or Ethics
The article “Jaws and the Meaning of Life” has resulted in much commentary and email. Also a lot of confusion. In that article I said “If life can be reduced to biology, to nothing but chemical and...
View ArticleShould We Worry Artificial Neurons Can Now Compute Faster Than The Human Brain?
Stream: Should We Worry Artificial Neurons Can Now Compute Faster Than The Human Brain? The report from last week’s Nature magazine is that “artificial neurons” can now “compute faster than the human...
View ArticlePedophile Says He’s A 9-Year-Old Trapped In Man’s Body. So He Is
Stream: Pedophile Says He’s A 9-Year-Old Trapped In Man’s Body. So He Is The Daily Wire reports on the story of 38-year-old Joseph Roman, who was “accused of sexually assaulting two six-year-olds and...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Good is the Cause of Evil
Previous post. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. That Good is the Cause of Evil 1 The foregoing arguments enable us to conclude that evil is caused only by the good. 2 For, if an evil...
View ArticleDo Demons Exist?
When it was evening, after sunset, they brought to him all who were ill or possessed by demons. The whole town was gathered at the door. He cured many who were sick with various diseases, and he drove...
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