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Summary Against Modern Thought: Ultimate Happiness Man’s Knowledge of God

Previous post. Three-word summary: Avoid bad books. That Human Felicity Does Not Consist In the Knowledge of God Which is Generally Possessed by Most Men 1 It remains to investigate…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Ultimate Happiness Comes In Contemplation Of God

Previous post. Finally, the grand (and not unexpected) reveal! That the ultimate felicity of man consists in the contemplation of God 1 So, if the ultimate felicity of man does…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Human Happiness Does Not Lie In Acts Of Virtue

Previous post. Strange (again again) are the things men seek out. That man's ultimate felicity does not lie in acts of the moral virtues 1 It is clear, too, that…

Chapter 1 Excerpt from <em>Uncertainty: The Soul of Probability, Modeling & Statistics</em>

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Chapter 1 Excerpt from Uncertainty: The Soul of Probability, Modeling & Statistics

Buy the book! Necessary & Conditional Truth Given "x,y,z are natural numbers and x>y and y>z" the proposition "x>z" is true (I am assuming logical knowledge here, which I don't…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Human Happiness Does Not Come In Health

Previous post. Strange (again again) are the things men seek out. That Human Felicity Does Not Consist In Goods of the Body 1 Moreover, that man's highest good does not…

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If The Founding Principles Were So Great, How’d We Get To Where We Are? Part II

Read Part I (first!). Munoz is right to show there was not unanimity among the Founders. Most adopted the language of rights, but some tempered this with doses of natural-law…

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Anthony Bourdain In Hell?

Hell exists. The unrepentant go there. By all accounts, and from the man's own pen, Anthony Bourdain was unrepentant. Therefore, Anthony Bourdain is in Hell. Or perhaps purgatory. Or maybe…

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If The Founding Principles Were So Great, How’d We Get To Where We Are? Part I

First, the founding principles of America were whatever they were; that is, there were principles stated and then there were principles actually adhered to (and these might be the same):…

Ralph Mertesdorf on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 17, 2024
People have many dimensions. Does not "equality" always need to identify the dimension to have a clear meaning? Are we…
A Flood Of Evidence: From God To Noah To Hume To Nobody – William M. Briggs on Reality-Based Probability & Statistics: Ending The Tyranny Of Parameters!July 17, 2024
[…] which somehow—nobody knows how—act on parameters of probability models. Readers who got through this paper will understand this critique.…
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…