There always comes a time when everything becomes clear. Even in the fog of battle. That thought defined the night of Sept. 14th, when Gavin Newsom retained his governor’s chair in New […]
Summary Against Modern Thought: More Proof Christ Is God
Previous post. Recall the last quote from Aristotle that even error is a witness. Here we learn from them, just as we do from paradox. SOLUTION OF THE AUTHORITIES WHICH ARIUS PROPOSED […]
The Religion Of Man Triumphant
The almost-blessed Archbishop Fulton J Sheen gave us in 1947 a paradox. He said then “that we are definitely at the end of a non-religious era of civilization”. This was still when […]
Is Time Travel Metaphysically Possible? — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
Before answering the question, I will define the different meanings of the word “possible”. In philosophy, there are different senses of the word “possible”. Besides, it’s good to know the different senses […]
Disproving Kossin’s Increasing Hurricane Intensity Claims: Update — Guest Post by Greg Kent
Editor’s note I have strong views on statistical “significance”, confidence intervals, p-values, and all that, finding them harmful and worse. However, Kossin used these concepts, and a criticism of his methods on […]
Winnowing the COVID-19 Numbers — Guest Post by John Carver
This idependent article shows how confusing counting coronavirus deaths are. Regular readers, no Doom tomorrow. This is going to be a preliminary investigation into the COVID-19 numbers being presented hourly to the […]
Bayesian Theorists Were Little Better Than Cranks
I stole today’s title from David Papineau’s essay “Thomas Bayes and the crisis in science“, which many readers sent in. When I was in grad school bad in the early to mid […]
The Unexpected Hanging Paradox
From reader Neil Taylor comes the request we examine the unexpected hanging paradox. I’m stealing from Wikipedia, which stole a version from Wolfram. A judge tells a condemned prisoner that he will […]
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