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Washington Post to Christians on Christmas Morning: Jesus Didn’t Exist

Stream: Washington Post to Christians on Christmas Morning: Jesus Didn't Exist Early Christmas morning, the Washington Post thought it would be wise to stick its thumb in the eyes of…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: A Second Misunderstanding of Separate Substances

Previous post. Like last week, this chapter exists to squash a subtle, technical errors. Again it requires close reading to grasp. It's best to at least skim: don't skip. Reminder:…

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A Coincidence: Coyne Zinged Me Before I Him — Or, The Coyne Fallacy Redux

After posting yesterday's article, Jerry Coyne Doesn't Have Free Will (poor fellow), I immediately saw hits coming to my place from Coyne's. It turned out that, unbeknownst to me, the…

Philosophy

The Static Theory of Time and Free Will — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor

It is often argued that if the block universe theory of time is correct then people lack free will. The reason for this contention is because on a B-theory of…

Statistics

Ritchie On Causes Of Evolution

Since we've been having fun discussing evolution, and because of YOS's repeated plea to distinguish observation of evolution (he provided this link), i.e. change, between the causes of these changes,…

Fun

Give It Up

Time for the semi-annual reminder. Give it up, readers. Dig in and pay out. Here are the ways to support the blog. Hire Briggs. Use the Contact form. Have Briggs…

Culture Philosophy

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…

Statistics

New Paper! A Volatile Discourse

Here's the abstract from the peer-reviewed (so you know everything in it must be true and sworn to by every rational human being now and forever) paper "A volatile discourse…

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…
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…