Friday, March 18, 2011

Epistemic Expertise - Preview Judgement Example

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This example fails. ( HT ) My prejudice is basically of fluffiness. A vast, soft, substanceless cloud of fluff that wants you to pretend it...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

SWPL, 1870 Edition

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" IMPERIALISTS All respectable, polite, peaceable, distinguished people. " So much has changed! " INFINITESIMAL Nobody knows ...
Sunday, March 6, 2011

Dualist Arithmetic?

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The universe is made up of two kinds of substances. There is a problem with this statement: only one of the substances is numerical. It does...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Epistemic Expertise II

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It would be handy if I could think as thoroughly about a subject I haven't written about as one I have. In the last eighteen days, I...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Epistemic Expertise

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I'ma get the tangents out of my brain so I can concentrate . " Logical inference is simply insufficient. " Untrue. The impress...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Hypervillianism

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After the suggestion, ' hyperstition .' The tendency to invent villainous agents to ameliorate feelings of helplessness. Quick quest...
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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Fisking, Economist by M.S.

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I think the major failure of this article ( HT ) is that it does not explain why liberals feel taxation is just, though it appears M.S. thi...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Troubling Charity

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Chappell has some good points to make about charity. But...is there a charity that gives out responsibility and initiative? Is there a cha...