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There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1
The works of David Stove need wider reading. I had been meaning to do a series reviewing all he wrote, but like the Class I couldn't decide where to start…
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Impose Your Beliefs Before They Impose Theirs
Headline from MSN: "Jewish senators alarmed by Alito’s pro-Christian agenda". Jewish Democratic senators are alarmed by conservative Justice Samuel Alito’s sympathy for basing government on Christian principles — something he…
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Telekinesis: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification
We continue our series of wondering about the foundations of science. Not only is mechanistic materialism false, for the many reasons we'll discuss, but it is a thoroughly enervating philosophy.…
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The Physics Of Blessings: Ideas In Our Reenchantment & Rectification
This belongs to the realm of supposition. I do not know if it's true, only that it seems possible. I do know that there must be a "Reenchantment of the…
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Woke Call Speaking Undesirable Truths Epistemic Violence
Silence, they say---and they do say this---is violence. So is speaking violence. At least when the words spoken express disagreement with woke local truths, which is to say, with woke…
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William M. Briggs on Embracing Uncertainty and Stats as a False God – Thorinquiry
Thanks to EMM for the donation! I was interviewed by Duncan Thorin Shields (he goes by Thorin) last week. He asked the best questions I think I've ever been asked.…
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Never Safety First
Here's a headline, drawn from what you will recognize is a large fund: "Safety first when viewing the partial solar eclipse in April". Here is another: "Safety first: Kern County…
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Probability Is Not Frequentist, Nor Math, Nor Real, Nor Subjective
I once had a guy walk out on me at a scientific conference, full of my peers. He and I were disagreeing about the nature of probability. The exact words…