A Pluralistic Perspective on Epistimology Epistimology is the theory, specifically the nature and scope of knowledge. Do you believe in truth? If you adequetely know something to be true how do you differentiate that from belief? How does
David Hume (Philosopher) Justified Belief - Pense à Consciousness Very simply put, inductive reasoning is generalizing from a trend. David Hume (1711-1776) referred to unobserved "matters of fact" to describe possible futures a posteriori. If you contrast experienced outcomes with
David Hume (Philosopher) i am an idea man - a humble ode to Hume From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume 1748 SECTION IV: SCEPTICAL DOUBTS CONCERNING THE OPERATIONS OF THE UNDERSTANDING PART I ALL the objects of human reason or enquiry may naturally be divided
Pascal's Wager and The Weird God Objection “Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God exists… if you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is” (Pensées
Steven Pinker (Cognitive Scientist) Meditations from Steven Pinker on our Cognitive Faculties Chances are, Steven Pinker would not use the metaphisical, "meditations" in describing his best attempt at listing the cognitive faculties and the core intuitions on which they are based. They are
Blaise Pascal (Mathematician) From Pensées, Blaise Pascal 1660, Trotter trans. Infinite—nothing.—Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. Unity joined to infinity adds nothing
Blazing Paths of Pascal From Pensées, Blaise Pascal 1660, Trotter trans. 233. Infinite—nothing.—Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe
Anselm of Canterbury (Philosopher) The Problem of Evil According to Mackie and the Efficacy of The Effigy The problem of evil is the focus for J.L. Mackie in his 1955 essay entitled; Evil and Omnipotence. From the beginning of Mackie's arguement, reason is something that is suspended to sustain
Gaunilo of Marmoutiers (Monk) Gaunilo's Fool & Craig's Dancing Girls From On Behalf of the Fool, Gaunilo, a Monk of Marmoutier 1078, this is a responsion via this 11th century Monk to Anselm's ontological arguement for the existence of god and "Dr&
White's Finely Tuned Analogy, Why Pluralism Matters and On William Paley's Watch In The Argument from Cosmological Fine Tuning (2012), Roger White asserts we would not be alive if the dials had not been set at very precise values and that this gives us sufficient
Anselm of Canterbury (Philosopher) Anselm's Prosologion Redux and Rebutal The pupose of this redux is to add further clarity to the writings of Anselm of Canterbury. Anselm was a philosopher born in the year 1033 in Aosta, Italy. I was challenged by
Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet) Shelley, Oppen and the planksip® Poet… “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” - Percy Bysshe Shelley “Poets are the legislators of the unknown world.” - George Oppen “Poets are the legislators of knowledge!” - Dr. Cory Elliot
Steven Pinker (Cognitive Scientist) Pinker for President My vote is Pinker for President. As a fellow Canadian by birth[1], I am not sure if being born in Canada prevents Steven from becoming the President of the United States? Ok,
A.C. Grayling (Philosopher) The Friendship of Laelius has Sailed From a Planck length to a cicero, the minimum threshold to comprehension in the written language was limited to typeface and font foundries. In 2020, my vision for the future is clear, perhaps
Elon Musk (CEO of SpaceX) Do You Trust This Computer? http://doyoutrustthiscomputer.org/watch versus https://www.ted.com/talks/grady_booch_don_t_fear_superintelligence?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
Trapeze Artists and Astronauts "There is a point in your life when you realize certain things are just never going to be." - Dr. Corey Elliot
Barbarians in the Mist “Banish fate from free will and embrace (neo)determinism as the dogma of father time and mother nature! So it shall Be!” - et al
From Causation to Correlation and Back *"I am not referring to the abandonment of causation, only the correlation of causation with correlation." *- Dr. Cory Elliot
I have it "Knowledge is the greatest gift, it's always looking for a way out of the present" - Dr. Cory Elliot
Transcendent Ascension of Man... When you think of UP what and where in your mind do you picture? From what perspective? How about down? Easy right? What about back and front? Now it gets tricky, how about
Astragali article coming soon... In the mean time this website is selling Ancient Astragali. http://www.ancienttouch.com/gaming astragali and dice.htm
Will Freeman (Android) What are your thoughts on Free Will? The Future of Free Will I approach a position on Free Will like an audience member watching an Emperor wearing a new set of clothes; as an illusion about an allusion. We are
Karl Marx (Philosopher) Marxism The contradictions of Marxism are manifest. Firstly, Karl Marx was Jewish by descent and birth. He wrote vile and virulent Utopian propaganda. His "final solution", to his Jewish "problem"
