Philosophy – Page 74 – William M. Briggs

128 Million Bigots (Including Your Mother): Gmarriage By The Numbers. Updates

Your Mother Is Evil Latest Gallup survey showed about 40% of citizens did not support gmarriage. According to gmarriage supporters, those who oppose gmarriage are bigots. Since mostly older people…

Culture Philosophy

Stream: Why Gmarriage Is Worse Than You Think

Today's post is at The Stream: Why Gmarriage is Worse than You Think: The government can only reinvent marriage when we believe that men can be gods. Before we begin,…

Culture Philosophy

What Causes Democracies To Incline Towards Pantheism

Wrapping up class. I'll be on the Bill Meyer Show today at 11:10 AM ET. He's a Medford, man. Medford, Oregon. (Let he who readeth understand.) This will keep up…

Philosophy Statistics

Randomness And The “Null” Hypothesis

Last week of teaching! Randomness is not a cause. Neither is chance. It is always a mistake to say things like "explainable by chance", "random change", "the differences are random",…

Philosophy Statistics

What Is Cause Like?

Time for the two-week teaching sojourn. In order to grasp cause, we need a brief, a very brief, introduction to the Aristotelian metaphysics of change. These are ancient views, largely…

Philosophy

The I-Must-Be-Right-Because-I-Can’t-Think-Of-Another-Reason Fallacy

The I-Must-Be-Right-Because-I-Can't-Think-Of-Another-Reason---or IMBRBICTOAR, pronounced, in Latin, im-bri-bictor---has always been with us, but its use has latterly accelerated because of our culture's fascination with self-esteem. Schools and universities in the West…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: God Is Truth

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. There is…

Culture Philosophy

Equality Always Wins

The gloomy, but accurate, words forming today's title were penned by Damon Linker in "How Ireland's gay marriage vote exposes the catch-22 of modern Christianity". That equality always wins is…

hudbwu on The Enlightenment Was The Beginning Of The Great Leveling: Stove 2July 18, 2024
Of course, the abolition of slavery was something the (Catholic) Church worked basically since day 1. And I'm pretty sure…
Cary D Cotterman on Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim ResearchersJuly 18, 2024
I know people (coincidentally all Democrats) who are constantly "masking up", testing, and getting boosted, who claim they've had covid…
Rudolph Harrier on Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim ResearchersJuly 18, 2024
This will last until they need an outbreak for a distraction and some other (minor) disease has naturally spread before…
Hagfish Bagpipe on Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim ResearchersJuly 18, 2024
Covid the "Boogerman of Maladies"? -- you jest Briggs but it's no joking matter. I had the sniffles once and…
Pk on Covid Is The Boogerman of Maladies: Now It Causes Cognitive Confusion Claim ResearchersJuly 18, 2024
I also heard on local radio that Covid is surging again. The reporter cited waste water analysis as how the…