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David Deutsch Rediscovers The Worst Argument In The World
You can read the whole story at Jim Franklin's place of how the late and lamented David Stove held a contest for the Worst Argument In The World. In [Stove's]…
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Readers Wills Himself To Write And Claim We Have No Free Will
Anon, a sweetheart and buyer of the majestic Everything You Believe Is Wrong, wrote to say my enemies have managed to insert several typos into the book. A not uncommon,…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: Our State Upon Death
Previous post. Once again, and for the last time, we remind you that you only get once chance. HOW INCORPOREAL SUBSTANCES MAY SUFFER FROM BODILY FIRE 1 That the unchangeable…
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The I Have Ascended Beyond Fallacy
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).…
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The Great Grand Bluff Of Science
Everybody knows the story of the turtles. The earth is held up by four large elephants, some say, which stand on the shell of an enormous turtle. When asked what…
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Do We Need Philosophy, Or Can Science Replace It?
You see the news? Woman pretending to be a man walked into a school and murdered a bunch of kids. "I know what you're going to say. You're going to…
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Science After Babel by David Berlinski Reviewed
David Berlinski is one of our best critics of the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution. He spends some time on this in his new book, which is a collection of pieces…
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Yuval Harari’s Homo Deus: Marketing The Materialist World View — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp
Reading your typical book is like sitting on the grandstand of a racetrack. You see the race cars whizzing by, and you sort of feel the excitement of the race,…
