I’m going to get back to my detailed criticism of the post and supporting comment of Daniel Sepulveda, but first, I’m warming up with some socializing, and light rebuttal of fallacious reasoning. To a comment…
I think today, that I’ll try noting what the content of OPs, OCs, and replies, and my intended support or objection is, before I type there. This way, I’ll be less likely to miss logging…
Continuing this tutorial series of posts on Epistemology, from defining knowledge and belief, we shall consider the ascendant qualifier for knowledge of belief, being true. This one is quite a bit stickier a wicket. This…
My first hour up holds promise of this being a day of excellence, relative to my standards, not those of others. In addition to my morning medications and ablutions, and to my logging of my…
This morning, I meant to log all the arguments, all the refutations, all the lessons in Logic and Fallacies, but I got too much momentum going, to remember. I’ll try to recover some of those….
Epistemology is the topic in Philosophy dealing with the nature of knowledge and how we can know. Of course, epistemologists are those that think, reason, and argue about it. Among epistemologists, a popular definition of…
I started off with a tongue-in-cheek treatment of my Humanist higher powers. I’ll be back this evening for more exploration, and, likely, skirmishes with the forces of cognitive biases, fallacies and unwarranted assumptions. 😉 Views:…
In the movie Jupiter Ascending, which I thoroughly enjoyed, though many critics panned it, there is a scene of intense conflict, in the climax, between the eponymous Jupiter and the main bad guy, whose name…
I think definition of religion, and differentiating it from faith, and that from belief, counts as exercise of Philosophy, … I think it is Ontology, but I’ll have to review the “branches” of Philosophy to…
I decided to fast today, except finishing the lemon pepper (chutney-tasting) sipping vinegar solution I’ve been progressively diluting since yesterday afternoon, and water. Why? I don’t know. I could rationalize it, if I needed to…