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Summary Against Modern Thought: Our Nature And Possible Intellect

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're still…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Our Intellect Is Not A Separate Substance

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 have…

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Musk’s Matrix Is Malodorous

"Elon Musk has said that there is only a 'one in billions' chance that we're not living in a computer simulation." Since all probability is conditional on the assumed premises,…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Man Has But One Soul

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 are…

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Stream: Won’t Somebody Please Rescue The Poor Tradinistas Slaving Away As Baristas?

Today's post is at the Stream Won't Somebody Please Rescue The Poor Tradinistas Slaving Away As Baristas? My article is part of a series at Stream on the attempted return…

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Why Is It Okay To Eat Pigs And Not Dogs? Science Does Not Have The Answer

Opening sentence of the abstract in the peer-reviewed paper "When Meat Gets Personal, Animals' Minds Matter Less: Motivated Use of Intelligence Information in Judgments of Moral Standing" in Social Psychological…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Plato On The Soul

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. The ghost…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: How Our Intellects & Brains Interact

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. All right,…

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