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Summary Against Modern Thought: Human Souls Begin At Conception Part III

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. Review is…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Human Souls Begin At Conception Part II

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. Review is…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Human Souls Begin At Conception Part I

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 next…

Philosophy

Why Is Rape Wrong? Science Has No Answer

Rape, right or wrong? Depends on how you define rape, you might say, Very well, define it how you like. Now answer the question: right or wrong? Here is what…

Book review Philosophy Statistics

Why I’m Unconvinced By Penrose’s Entropy/Anthropic Argument

There are a number of "constants" used in physics, such as the speed of light, the Planck constant, elementary charge and so forth. Some of these constants are bare, meaning…

Philosophy Statistics

Every Result Of Unsupervised Learning Is Correct; Or, All Learning Is Supervised

The real point I wish to make is that there is no such thing as unsupervised learning; or, stated another way, Truth exists; or, stated another way, every solution to…

Philosophy

Summary Against Modern Thought: Animal Souls Are Mortal

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. Do not…

Culture Philosophy

Could You Do Progressivism, But From The Right?

Today's discussion question is posed by somebody calling himself Iulian Bretonescu, in "The Right Religion", which is mandatory reading. Here, for the exceptionally lazy, is a brief summary. (The literature…

Brian (bulaoren) on Vegetarians Crave Power And Success More Than Meat Eaters Do, Study FindsJuly 16, 2025
Obviously, a vegetarian diet does not produce a feeling of satiation.
Zundfolge on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 16, 2025
JRob, all a "Meta-Study" is is cherry picking from a large pool of studies (most of which can't be replicated…
JRob on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 16, 2025
Here is a topic that seems suspicious to me: Meta-Studies. It seems that whenever some topic is highly controversial, a…
John Pate on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 16, 2025
LOL. Any science which strays from direct observation and carefully bounded description of reliably, objectively measurable objects and systems observable…
Yierron on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 15, 2025
@ The True Nolan RE: "After decades of watching, I think the entire field can be boiled down to one…