
A public radio station hosts what they call “The Academic Minute”, a name which signals you are in for sixty seconds of pain. This was so in a minute from “Moti Mizrahi, […]
The philosophy of science, empiricism, a priori reasoning, epistemology, and so on.
A public radio station hosts what they call “The Academic Minute”, a name which signals you are in for sixty seconds of pain. This was so in a minute from “Moti Mizrahi, […]
Why You Need To Read This My dear readers, a complex subject today, presented in the guise of a book review. We are increasingly beset by lunatic psychotic sociopathic rulers wielding The […]
In which we start simple, stay simple, come to Plateau Easy, and the readers begins to wonder why he bothers, which he discovers at the end to his puzzlement. Get In Line […]
Ready for some Logic 101? Something real easy, I promise. We’ll use it in service to show why falsificationism is not that interesting, or useful, and we’ll need it in judging how […]
What a strange time we live in. Sodomy has always existed, and it is therefore rational to conclude it will always be with us. Every other culture has looked on the act […]
Background Our subject is taboos and magic, but given the source material, a bit of background might be welcomed by some. If you are in a hurry, skip right to Taboo. In […]
There is a special kind of argument you hear only from academic Experts. Non-academic non-Experts never use it; or, if they do, I’ve not seen any example (beyond parroting AEs). This academic […]
The title is Nancy Cartwright’s, from her book of the same name, and from an article which forms Chapter 3, “Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts?” No, she says, and […]
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