UPDATE I caused great confusion by putting the word “multiverse” in the title, when there is a whole other theory called “the” multiverse. Yet I did this because Hossenfelder herself, mainly in […]
What Is Science?
More streams coming! Including iTunes, if I can get by the censors. You can also listen at YouTube. See this frog? The “IFL Science” people say that frog is Science. IFL is […]
How Not To Think Like A Bayesian Rationalist
Lisping Rationalists When I read people like Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander it becomes clear to me how the French could have built a Temple of Reason during The Terror. Constructed, you […]
Summary Against Modern Thought: Divine Providence Does Not Exclude Evil
Previous post. In which the age-old question is answered: If God exists, whence comes evil? THAT DIVINE PROVIDENCE DOES NOT ENTIRELY EXCLUDE EVIL FROM THINGS 1 Now, from these conclusions it becomes […]
Can You Find A Counterexample To Feser’s Defense Of The Perverted Faculty Argument?
Here in a succinct and lovely way is Feser’s distillation of the Perverted Faculty Argument (from his paper of the defense of the same) applied to matters sexual: Where some faculty F […]
Entry For The Most Pompous Statement Of Scientism
Our friend John Cook came (via The Renaissance Mathematicus) across what is easily one of the most pompous declarations by a scientist we have ever seen. The words came from Russell Foster […]
What Regression Really Is
Bookmark this one, will you, folks? If there’s one thing we get more questions about and that is more abused than regression, I don’t know. So here is the world’s briefest—and most […]
Probability Isn’t “Fair”: An Answer To Senn; Part III
A quick reminder that we’re trying to unpack the meaning of the “is fair” in the proposition “This die is fair,” and trying to deduce the probability this proposition is true given […]
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