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UNCERTAINTY & PROBABILITY THEORY: THE LOGIC OF SCIENCE Links to YouTube, Rumble, Bitchute, and Twitter inside each class. Jayne's Book (first part). Class 1: Logic teaser (blog, Substack). Class 2:…
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The Moral Reason for Free Will — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
Do human persons have free will? I would say so. And I will expound on a fairly common yet powerful argument for the existence of free will, viz., that moral…
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The Religion Of Man Triumphant
The almost-blessed Archbishop Fulton J Sheen gave us in 1947 a paradox. He said then "that we are definitely at the end of a non-religious era of civilization". This was…
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The Myth Of Physicalism — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
Physicalism is an extreme form of materialism that says that only physical entities exist. This differs from more moderate forms of materialism like property dualism or emergentism where immaterial entities…
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Your Most Important Choice: Part I — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Ante Up The world is a pretty confusing place. Considering the diverse nature of mankind's varied belief systems, that's not surprising. But that doesn't explain the depths of man's seeming…
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E. Michael Jones vs. Michael L. Brown: Can We Speak of “The Catholics” or “The Jews”?
The readings for Sunday, 12 May (Acts 13:14, 43-52): Paul and Barnabas carried on from Perga till they reached Antioch in Pisidia. Here they went to synagogue on the Sabbath…
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Is Time Travel Metaphysically Possible? — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
Before answering the question, I will define the different meanings of the word "possible". In philosophy, there are different senses of the word "possible". Besides, it's good to know the…
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Is A Material Bearer of Consciousness Intelligible? — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
Somebody Has To Pay The Consciousness Bill The first problem that I dealt with concerning emergentism was the problem of how unconscious matter becomes conscious. I have previously argued against…