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Probability is Logic
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Probability is Logic

I was reading a draft of a book our own Fr John Rickert's is working on. Visual Logic: Seeing Classical and Modern Logic: An Introduction, a neat little handbook showing…
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Spurious Correlations Proves Hypothesis Testing Should Be Abandoned
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Spurious Correlations Proves Hypothesis Testing Should Be Abandoned

This week traditionally is a slow week on the blog, so let me have a go at explaining something I've explained a few hundred times before, a thing which has…
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David Stove Exposes Karl Popper’s Wee P!
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David Stove Exposes Karl Popper’s Wee P!

We have discussed before (and in detail here) how Fisher, inventor of the wee P of which scientists boast ("Look how small my P is!" shouted the excited scientist), was…
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Why Dembski’s Design Inference (Of Causation) Goes Wrong
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Why Dembski’s Design Inference (Of Causation) Goes Wrong

Probability does not exist; therefore, nothing has a probability, so nothing can be caused by probability, though the uncertainty of statements can be had conditional on assumptions, and this probability…
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Yuval Noah Harari’s Bad Argument About AI Ruling The World
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Yuval Noah Harari’s Bad Argument About AI Ruling The World

Here, in his own words, is the argument Yuval Noah Harari uses to justify his transhumanism. 1. Organisms are algorithms. Every animal — including Homo sapiens — is an assemblage…
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The Step Back Shuffle Problem In The Origin Of Life
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The Step Back Shuffle Problem In The Origin Of Life

Science does not know what life is. Which is to say, the definition of life is not scientific. Science begins with the definition---supplied by outside sources and methods---and then does…
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“Let Us Kill! Let Us Kill!” The Left Chants As Justice Alito Smiles On
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“Let Us Kill! Let Us Kill!” The Left Chants As Justice Alito Smiles On

Propagandists are celebrating. Not the possibility that ghouls calling themselves "doctors" will no longer be able to kill legally the lives inside would-be mothers---and use the dead bodies in various…
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Pinheads To Create Official Ministry Of Truth: Climate “Disinformation” To Be Banned
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Pinheads To Create Official Ministry Of Truth: Climate “Disinformation” To Be Banned

Regular readers are sick of reading, yet must endure it once more, that officially defining "misinformation" and "disinformation" necessitates the creation of a Ministry of Truth. Some agency must define…
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    The problem came when computers made it easy to plug numbers without you really knowing what you're doing. It became…

  2. Rudolph Harrier on Class 73: How To Tell If You Have Bad DiceDecember 6, 2025

    I think the problem is that many people want to have a consistent process above all else. They don't want…

  3. John Pate on Class 73: How To Tell If You Have Bad DiceDecember 5, 2025

    You would have been in your element Briggs. I was quite heavily into the statistics nonsense at the time due…

  4. Briggs on Class 73: How To Tell If You Have Bad DiceDecember 5, 2025

    John, Now that's very interesting. I would have loved to have heard that talk.

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    This is why I laughed at the nonsense about Casinos using probability. All they care about is the House wins…

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