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• Postmodernism?

  
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  I’m browsing through a vast collection of contemporary art at  artsy . It is truly impressive, but, and I think it would occur to anyone after 10 minutes of browsing, there is so much angst and fear and paranoid-schizophrenic fragmentation… This, of course, is as much about out epistemological predicament ...
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• Curiosity as is seen by Einstein (above, via Physicist Tv) and...

  
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  Curiosity as is seen by Einstein (above, via Physicist Tv) and by XKCD (below, via XKCD). [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• "Logic is the anatomy of thought."

  
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  “Logic is the anatomy of thought.” - John Locke [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Education’s Blunt-Object Epistemology

  
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  I’ve often thought of education – my chosen field – as applied epistemology. This was a conceit. Education does not explore or enact the subtle, rich, body of epistemological thought. Education has an epistemology, a vulgar blunt-object affair that is, essentially, the product of the limitations of the ...
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• Ayn Rand & Epistemology 37

  
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  Peikoffs Argument . In a previous post , I criticized Peikoffs theory of meaning, which asserts that "the meaning of a concept consists of the units ... it integrates." This Objectivist theory of meaning, as I noted in that post, contains both platonist and positivistic aspects. It separates meaning from individual ...
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• Make More Progress

  
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  (I wrote this for Philosophy in Action’s Newsletter back in September 2012, but it’s still relevant today… and I’m still using the same technique!) Just this week, I had my third horseback riding lesson with my new three-day eventing trainer. Lila (my horse) and I have made remarkable progress in just ...
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• How to Be a Morally Responsible Skeptic MP3 Audio by Dallas Willard

  
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  Philosopher Dallas Willard makes the case that disbelief is not a stance to be taken lightly. Individuals have a responsibility to assume the burden of proof for their disbelief. Dallas Willard died on May 8, 2013 and will be missed by many. Find his books here . Full MP3 Audio here . (from Veritas ) Enjoy. ...
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• video: "Changing Signs of Truth: A Christian Introduction to Semiotics" (Crystal Downing)

  
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  Faculty Scholarship: Crystal Downing "Changing Signs of Truth" from Messiah Humanities on Vimeo .
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• "The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a..."

  
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  “The 2nd law of thermodynamics has the same degree of truth as the statement that if you throw a tumblerful of water into the sea, you cannot get the same tumblerful of water out... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Words I Love: Contronyms and Autoholonyms

  
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  Mental Floss posted a list of “contronyms” or “self-antonyms,” namely words that mean their own opposite. Here are a few of my favorites: 1. Sanction (via French, from Latin sanctio(n-), from sancire ‘ratify,’) can mean ‘give official permission or approval for (an action)’ or conversely, ‘impose ...
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• Pseudo-Dionysian Biblical Exegesis

  
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  “Dionysius the Areopagite Converting the Pagan Philosophers” by Antoine Caron (French, 1521 – 1599), Oil on panel If you know anything about Pseudo-Dionysius you will know that his works, aside from the Bible, were the most studied works of the Medieval period. Though certain works of Augustine were just as ...
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• Are you suffering a long Monday? Click the image to put the...

  
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  Are you suffering a long Monday? Click the image to put the concept of time in context and relieve this pain by yourself.More: exploringtime.org [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Inbinairy Inqueery

  
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  True or False: a.) Is I? b.) I is. c.) Am I? d.) I am. e.) Is is? f.) Is is. g.) Is “Is is?”? h.) “Is is?” is. I.) Is “Is ‘Is is?’?”? j.) “Is ‘Is is?’?” is. k.) Is “Is ‘Is “Is is?”?’?”? l.) “Is ‘Is “Is is?”?’?” is. - — - — - — - ...
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• y’know, i’m kind of proud of science right now, even social science

  
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  In age of climate denialism and other chicanery, it’s easy to be a science pessimist. But when I stand back, I become a little more confident about things. Science, as an institution, has not buckled under pressure. For example, I think about vaccine skeptics . Truly bad science that has lead to some deaths. ...
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• "Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral,..."

  
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  “Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.” - Francis Bacon [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• simultaneous perception and epistemology/synsethesia/simulacra of the city

  
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  Tony Hiss coined the phrase simultaneous perception in his  presceient 1990 book The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside . The introduction and first chapter are invaluable (read here .. just a few pages missing)  in discerning a ...
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• An Apologia for Tentavism

  
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  I tend to rag on postmodernism leading to relativism, so, to see a much more charitable description, you should pop over to Christian H’s blog to read his apologia. [O]ne of the recurrent complaints my peers and I had about some of our English Masters classes was that, at the end of it all, we were afraid [...]
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• “What is true for you is true for you”

  
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  It happens that New Agers and other “spiritual” leaders will make a statement like: “Take with you what you want and leave the rest” –Sylvia Browne “What is true for you is true for you.” “What is true for you is what you have observed yourself.” –L. Ron Hubbard I think this line of propaganda ...
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• Both Aleatory and Epistemic Uncertainty Create Risk

  
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  ..."at what point does the decision NOT to obtain accessible knowledge about reducible exposures [epistemic uncertainty] - such as excessive complexity - become a Corporate Governance issue?"
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• Advice for Christians who discuss their faith with atheists… from an atheist

  
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  I spotted this post by Jeffery Jay Lowder on The Secular Outpost, and I think it’s good advice. There are times where two people speak the same language, use the same words, and mean  very  different things by the same words. In conversations between Christians and atheists, “faith” is one such word. For ...
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