Philosophy – Page 34 – William M. Briggs

Summary Against Modern Thought: You Need God To See God

Previous post. You can't do everything on your own: be sure to first review last week for an understanding of what that means. THAT NO CREATED SUBSTANCE CAN, BY ITS…

Culture Philosophy

“Doctors” Suggest Hacking Up Live Patients For Their Organs, Then Killing Them

The paper in the oh-so-prestigious New England Journal of Medicine is "Voluntary Euthanasia -- Implications for Organ Donation" by Ian M. Ball, Robert Sibbald, and Robert D. Truog, a couple…

Philosophy Statistics

Proof Cause Is In The Mind And Not In The Data

Pick something that happened. Doesn't matter what it is, as long as it happened. Something caused this thing to happen; which is to say, something actual turned the potential (of…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: How God Will Be Seen

Previous post. Some good news this week! HOW GOD MAY BE SEEN IN HIS ESSENCE 1 Since it is impossible for a natural desire to be incapable of fulfillment, and…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Even Angels Want To Know More

Previous post. Learning is endless. And Thank God for that. THAT THE NATURAL DESIRE OF SEPARATE SUBSTANCES DOES NOT COME TO REST IN THE NATURAL KNOWLEDGE WHICH THEY HAVE OF…

Fun Philosophy

I’ve Been Promoted!

Austin Ruse kindly sent me a note to tell me George Gilder referenced Uncertainty in the introduction to his new book, Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and…

Culture Philosophy

Why “I Believe Survivors” Is Asinine: Kavanaugh vs. Ford, Realists vs. Fantasists.

We're interested here in why people believe this female Ford's charges against male SCOTUS nominee Kavanaugh. Many progressives say Ford's evidence, even at this late date (I'm editing this on…

Philosophy

I Am About To Destroy The Government — And You Can Be A Witness!

Younger readers may wish to the leave the room. Older ones will want to check that their wills are in order. For I'm about to astonish and amaze with a…

The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2 – William M. Briggs on There Is No Culture Without Inequality: Stove 1July 17, 2024
[…] We continue our series on the works of David Stove by picking up where we left off with the…
Briggs on Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes SymmetryJuly 17, 2024
Hagfish, Yes, I'd say entry level, for those who have had some usual math training. Which is not most people,…
Hagfish Bagpipe on Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes SymmetryJuly 16, 2024
More? What more fame and riches could there be for the Statistician to the Stars?! No sir, what I mean…
Paul murphy on Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes SymmetryJuly 16, 2024
1 - re hagfish response: for fame and riches you need to say stuff lots of people believe in ways…
Briggs on Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes SymmetryJuly 16, 2024
Hagfish, So what you're saying is that I should write another, simpler version of either of those two books, and…