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Genetic Engineering To Create New Super Moral Race: Savulescu Strikes Again

On the road, so here is a classic post from not too long ago. The appalling Julian Savulescu1 is back, this time staining the pages of the British edition of…

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Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Part V

Soul music Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part Interlude, Part IV, Part V, Part VI. Part Last. A mistake followers of Aristotle or St. Thomas Aquinas would not…

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We Have Evolved Beyond Evolution: How Can Evolution Help?

There is an argument favored by some fans of evolutionary psychology that goes something like this: For the vast majority of our 150,000 years or so on the planet, we…

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True Value Of A Parameter

Jelle de Jong writes in to ask: Working as a quant analyst in finance I recently got interested in the Briggsian/Jaynesian/Bayesian interpretation of probability but am still struggling a bit…

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The Rationality of Induction: David Stove

Is deductive logic empirical? No. Is inductive logic also empirical? No. Is induction justified and, if so, is it just an extension of logic? Yes. These are Stove's conclusions as…

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The impossibility of there being no truth.

One of the premises frequently used for the argument that "all cultures are equal" (multiculturalism), or for the argument that you should not be judgmental, is relativism, which is the…

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Will Smith on reprogramming Hitler

Roger Kimball, in his blog, has an entry on the actor Will Smith's "Reprogramming Hitler" comments. The subject is benevolence. It is well worth reading. A quote: "The Australian philosopher…

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Variant on a theme

We, dear readers, have earlier dealt with the nonsensical argument, of which an Enlightened few are excessively fond, "There is no truth." This is an argument often employed by those…

spetzer86 on What Are The Chances 6 AfD Candidates Die Before An Election?September 3, 2025
Wouldn't the span of time the deaths happened in figure into the final probability? The value used is for a…
John Pate on What Are The Chances 6 AfD Candidates Die Before An Election?September 3, 2025
Number seven just took the big sleep.
JH on Pray For The Downfall, Ruin, Confusion & Conversion Of The Doctors & Experts Causing TransanitySeptember 3, 2025
I see one significant change in society: wishing ill on others has become more acceptable. Why is that? The reasons…
w on What Are The Chances 6 AfD Candidates Die Before An Election?September 3, 2025
The count is up to 7 (seven) now!
Paul Fischer on What Are The Chances 6 AfD Candidates Die Before An Election?September 3, 2025
Robert, there’s no such thing as “the independence premise.” The piece is satire, mocking the rampant abuse of statistics. It’s…