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Philosophic Issues in Cosmology VII: Is there a Multiverse?–Guest Post by Bob Kurland

Bob Kurland is a retired, cranky, old physicist, and convert to Catholicism. He shows that there is no contradiction between what science tells us about the world and our Catholic…

Philosophy

Philosophic Issues in Cosmology III: Mathematical Metaphysics—Guest Post by Bob Kurland

Bob Kurland is a retired, cranky, old physicist, and convert to Catholicism. He shows that there is no contradiction between what science tells us about the world and our Catholic…

Culture

U Penn’s Latest Conn: Religious Schools Shouldn’t Be Accredited

Tell the truth: English Departments at our "top" universities are stuffed to the quad with (A) Progressives or (B) Conservatives? Anybody claiming (B) is either ignorant (I mean this politely)…

Philosophy Statistics

The Deadly Sin Of Reification! Day Three

Zeno Phobia Counting day. How many ways can you skin a cat if the number of sharp versus dull knives is this and such. Simple stuff, easy to get the…

Statistics

Failed Counterexamples To The Principle Of Indifference

What is the so-called Principle Of Indifference? A semi-screwy, semi-right idea in probability. To cadge an example from David Stove, let T be any tautology (a truth), then Pr(Bob…

Philosophy Statistics

What Statistics Really Is: Part Last

Read Part I, Part Paradox, Part II Recapitulation: we have Pr(p|qm) where p is a proposition of interest, q the evidence we have compiled in the form of observations and…

Philosophy Statistics

What Statistics Really Is: Part II

Read Part I, Part Paradox I claimed, and it is true, that all statistical problems could be written $latex \Pr(p|q)$, where p is a proposition of interest and q is…

Fun Philosophy

#ICanChangeThePast2, Or, Tweeting Time Travel

You're a time traveler stuck in July 2012. How depressing. You have time on your hands. Time to kill, that is. How to pass the time? Twitter, naturally. Great time…

Tracy Platt on The Apples In A Sack Paradox: Solve It Or You Get No Pie TomorrowNovember 26, 2025
I think Rudolf comes closest except for this being a garbage problem. My guess is we will see similar arguments…
John Pate on The Apples In A Sack Paradox: Solve It Or You Get No Pie TomorrowNovember 26, 2025
Mr Harrier is on the right lines: see previous blog where I was berating sundry for worrying about using probability…
John Pate on Antichrist, by Saint Robert BellarmineNovember 26, 2025
Everyone needs to go and read PK Dick's "V.A.L.I.S." which he said was true but fictiionalised account of what's going…
C-Marie on Antichrist, by Saint Robert BellarmineNovember 26, 2025
Thank you Matt for this article!!! The One World Government and the One World Religion are on their way. Let…
Rudolph Harrier on The Apples In A Sack Paradox: Solve It Or You Get No Pie TomorrowNovember 26, 2025
I don't understand your cardinality approach. If I remove an infinite set from another of the same cardinality, the result…