I am a man who cares very much about definitions. I would argue that many disagreements arise simply because the ones in disagreement are using different definitions of the words. I have shared my wish that words were more precise, that is, that they did not have such a wide range in meanings.[1] If words have fewer meanings, there is less chance ( Read more... )

It's been ages since I've posted (primarily because I am writing other more important things) and even longer since it was an "...and What It Is Not" post ( Read more... )

Apparently, President Obama made some comment in his inaugural address that he would "restore science to its rightful place."

Of course, I did not watch the inauguration; I only found out about this from a Facebook message from T.Gr., who posted about it on his blog, in which he cited the following article, written by Dennis Overbye:

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I received the same article in my Inbox twice last week, so maybe some of you (in the States) have also seen it. It was an article written my a person who feels strongly that people should have to pass a "Civics" test to be allowed to vote. (The test is under the cut at the end of the entry ( Read more... )

Something about Wikipedia really bothers me.

I was there recently looking up some information about the Hebrew word Elohim. I was appalled by the load of crap that I read there. The linguistical information was so wrong, it was laughable. It read like it was written by a twelve-year-old. The transliterations were whacked out. The inconsistency of ( Read more... )

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As one whose hobby it is to create worlds and as one being very much into details, I considered everything related to my worlds. I thought up maps, family trees, biographies, timelines, languages, mythology, cosmology, culture, fashion, architecture, art, music, etc., etc. I still do this in my created worlds today. But the ( Read more... )