Consider this model: the "system" S is a (propositional, I guess) description of a domain and all its happenings. There's a set of operations which are the operations of reason--call them R ( Read more... )

I think I've said something along the lines of this before, but I'm going to say it again under the illusion that saying it will cause me to start acting on it ( Read more... )

[In one of the simple and common models of epistemology] one trades in one's blind faith for scientific doubt out of risk aversion: the options are, first, foolish adherence to the false with the slightest chance of holding, purely by accident, the Truth, and, second, a tolerable purgatory where one is always detached from but always slowly ( Read more... )

"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between, plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big 'thing'. This is truth, to me." - Jack Handey

I don't have the resolve to wait for public opinion on this.
Or maybe I'm too eager to wait to address ( Read more... )