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The Sorites Paradox Isn’t
Clearly, a guy with no hair on his head is bald. But so is a guy with just one---if and only if we define bald as "a man with little…
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The Lady Tasting Tea: Bayes Versus Frequentism; Part I (updated)
Since the subject arose yesterday, and for other reasons which I'll explain later, I thought we should revisit this series, which ran a year ago. I have edited and expanded…
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Alien Invasions To Increase Because Of Global Warming, Scientists
Eco-warriors from beyond the skies are on their way to destroy our world before we do---women and minorities are expected to be hardest hit---according to a shocking new report from…
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What Is A True Model? What Makes A Good One?: Part III
We have had two cases so far: arbitrary models for counterfactual Martians (Part I) and a deduced model for an urn holding dichotomous objects (Part II). The logic was identical…
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The Jeffreys-Lindley Paradox Isn’t
Background A paradox is a mistake in thinking; an artificial, human creation which usually arises because a conclusion which follows from a set of beloved premises is itself unloved. Twitter…
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There’s An End On’t! Gazzaniga’s Who’s In Charge? Reviewed: Part I
Who's In Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain by Michael S. Gazzaniga On the evening of October 10th 1769, in one of his typically curt dismissals of…
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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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Realism vs. Anti-Realism III: The anti-realist response — Guest Post by G. Rodrigues
We have no space to follow St. Thomas through all these negative heresies; but a word must be said about Nominalism or the doubt founded on the things that differ.…
