Showing posts with label First Principles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label First Principles. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

First Principles, Left and Right

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This is a rough draft of the concept of principles which underlie the Left and Right. It's a first cut, and there might be errors or omi...
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Thursday, September 10, 2015

More Activity At This Post...

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The Principles of the First Principles This is a good and welcome discussion. Feel free to chime in.
Friday, July 24, 2015

Radical Skepticism: An Answer for Shizmoo

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Shizmoo, This question reminds me of the time that I posted a question on Massimo Pigliucci’s blog asking him how he kept his arguments gro...
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Friday, August 5, 2011

Readers: FYI

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There is activity on the subject of First Principles here.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Fred on Details of The First Principles.

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I apologize to Fred for the delay in answering his question concrning the Details of the First Principles; it is a timely question, so I wil...
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Friday, October 1, 2010

Open Letter To Singring

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Singring , you and others there are arguing a philosophy of science. You apparently are not familiar with the foundations of science in basi...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

Richard Carrier: Advice to Everyone on Becoming a Philosopher.

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Richard Carrier , PhD., is a philosopher, lecturer, blogger and contributor to several naturalist websites. On a recent blog post, he g...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Rebellion, Freedom and Reality

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When the movie, “ Rebel Without a Cause ” came out in 1955, I felt as if they had made it about me. Being adolescent in a time of gang warf...
Friday, July 2, 2010

The Trouble With Truth

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The Trouble With Truth: Freedom vs. Subservience Freedom is the advantage of Atheism, while subservience is the plague of religion: that is ...
Friday, May 28, 2010

Why I Am Not A Philosopher

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”Philosophy is concerned with two matters: soluble questions that are trivial, and crucial questions that are insoluble” Stefan Kanfer; quot...
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Saturday, May 15, 2010

Insane Clown Posse as Philosophers of Science.

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On Massimo Piggliucci’s blog, Julia Galef wonders why some of the masses distrust science. She takes a clue from the analysts at Insane Clo...
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Thursday, February 4, 2010

A Conversation Between Wolfgang Pauli and Werner Heisenberg

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Three great physicists met in Copenhagen 25 years after the Copenhagen Meeting of 1952 when quantum theory became endowed with the Copenhage...
Friday, January 22, 2010

The Nature of Logic, Part 2

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There is another feature of binary logic that is possibly not immediately apparent to the new student. It is this: there is a large differe...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Can The First Principles Be Refuted Using Logic?

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Logic is based on axioms, which it presumes to be universally and perpetually valid. These axioms are the First Principles. If a logical ca...
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Monday, November 2, 2009

The Mathematics of Reason: The First Principles According To Boole.

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In 1853, George Boole published his treatise, ”An Investigation of the Laws of Thought” , and gave the world “Boolean Algebra”, the mathemat...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

If You Don’t Value Truth, Then What DO You Value? [Updated]

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In the previous posts the idea that relativism can be rational, true and absolute is explored, along with the need for truth as an incorrig...
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Sunday, June 14, 2009

Is There Truth and How Could I Know? An Essay

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Occasionally I run into Relativists who insist that nothing is constant, the world is in a continual state of flux, and therefore there is n...
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