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Saturday, September 08, 2007
Argumentum ad Ignorantiam
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Robert Larmer has an interesting little paper called Is there anything wrong with “God of the gaps” reasoning? on the proper characterizati...
L'Engle
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Madeleine L'Engle died Thursday at the age of 88. A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door , A Swiftly Tilting Planet , and...
Omniscience and Necessity
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There has been some lovely discussion over at Richard Brown's blog, "Philosophy Sucks!", devoted to the question of whether om...
Friday, September 07, 2007
Rationalists are Growing Rational
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A Ballade of Suicide G. K. Chesterton The gallows in my garden, people say, Is new and neat and adequately tall; I tie the noose on in a kno...
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Notes and Links
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* Susan Palwick has a lovely post on giving to the homeless . * Terence Tao has a summary of the argument of the paper co-authored by Danic...
Monday, September 03, 2007
Notes Toward a Formal Typology of Argument V
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In the first post I laid out in a rough way the notation for the typology. In the second post I introduced the notion of attenuation and u...
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Logical Epochs
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I find it interesting that philosophers often have a tendency to speak of logic as going through two epochs: the traditional, or Aristotelia...
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