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Summary Against Modern Thought: Angels Know Each Other

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Finishing Chapter…

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The Offence Fallacy

The Offence Fallacy is perhaps the most popular bad argument used to dismiss Truths which are uncomfortable to us moderns. It is best illustrated in a real example. Here are…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Angels Are Born Knowing

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Before you…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Angels Learn By Induction

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Angels learn…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Each Angel Is A Separate Species

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. Angels are…

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God Logically Implies A Block Universe Theory Of Time — Guest Post by the Cranky Professor

Does a timeless God logically imply a block universe theory of time? The answer is certainly yes! But before I demonstrate that a timeless (unchangeable) God implies a B-theory of…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Angels Are Intellectual Substances

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. We're still…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Our Intellects Survive Beyond Our Bodies

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. It can…

Pk on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 17, 2024
The Slippery Slope Fallacy is the assumption that you are starting from and good, stable landing when, instead, we are…
gareth on Lesson 13: No “Fair” Dice & Jaynes SymmetryJuly 17, 2024
Thanks for doing this Briggs :-) Am (partially) following... (by which I mean that I'm getting some or most of…
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My writer friend describes a memorable lesson in statistics, given in her office where she was health editor at a…
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"That everyone ought to be equal is a moral idea which simply never occurred to anyone in antiquity; not even…
Cary D Cotterman on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 17, 2024
If DEI continues, it will be the destruction of everything humanity has achieved. You'd think that then the woke would…