Mull briefly on this claim: Any argument which stems ultimately from induction, because it is based on generalizing from a limited observation rather than from the whole set of data, cannot be verified to be true. Is it self-referencing, self-refuting, defensible, or something else?
I would like to think that there is something meaningful manifest in the fact that I happened upon Dr. Harry Frankfurt‘s somewhat-philosophical work [amazonify]0691122946::text:objectrue0a-20:::On Bullshit[/amazonify] on the same day that I started doing actual practice essays for my upcoming GRE. Frankfurt’s piece is remarkably short, and contains a few interesting observations about the supposed nature […]
It feels, once again, like time to ping-back to the internet (I’m here, big guy!). I caught a lot of hype a week ago about abandoned blogs (the New York Times claims 95% are dead!), so I thought I would at least make some feeble attempt at proving to myself that I can keep writing […]
recommended listening: Low’s “A Little Argument with Myself”, from the album Trust (hear it on Youtube or buy it at Insound) I recently took it upon myself to read Charles Taliaferro and Stewart Goetz‘s work Naturalism ([amazonify]0802807682::text::::for sale here[/amazonify]). I highly recommend the book for anyone looking for a good summary of some considerations of […]
Open a terminal. sudo apt-get install build-essential cvs subversion libglib-2.0-dev automake libtool libltdl3-dev automake1.9 autotools-dev libpopt-dev libcurl3-dev libx11-dev x11proto-xext-dev libbz2-dev libid3tag0-dev libpng12-dev libtiff4-dev libungif4-dev libjpeg62-dev libssl-dev libfreetype6-dev bison flex gettext libimlib2-dev libpam0g-dev libxml2-dev libxcursor-dev libgtk1.2-dev autoconf pkg-config libpng3-dev libxine-dev libxkbfile-dev libsqlite3-dev giblib-dev libxmu-dev libxdamage-dev libxcomposite-dev libtag1-dev libtagc0-dev giblib-dev libasound2-dev libdbus-1-dev libfontconfig-dev Say “y” to install… […]
In the event that you happen to be reading this review in order to decide whether or not to purchase Charles Spearin’s record The Happiness Project, I will attempt to make that decision easier for you. If you enjoy music which inspires some basic level of reflective thought, and you are not afraid to step […]
On 5 September 2001, an organ in 639 year old church in Halberstadt, Germany started pumping out silence. A couple of years later, on 5 February 2003, the organ played some notes for the first time. This initial musical rest and corresponding set of coordinated musical notes represent perhaps the most ambitious musical project in […]
If you are viewing this from facebook, please visit the original article, for better formatting. Ontological arguments are fun, aren’t they? I’ve had this one on the back burner for a while now1, and I had hoped to make some improvements before discussing it with anybody. However, last night after finishing up an article on […]
It is apparent that your instinctive approach is philosophical, when you find an epistemological statement on your deodorant stick: