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Answering Theists #1
There are a lot of theists out there who type up what they think are “gotcha” questions for atheists. Theist trolls absolutely love these lists and to copy/paste them, often on a hit-and-r… more →
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The Faulty Logic of the 'Math Wars' - NYTimes.com
wrote 1 day ago: On any issue check if it must be an either-or proposition. In this case there is no logical reason b … more →
Came to Realize…
wrote 2 days ago: “O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.” -Robert Burns, “To a Louse … more →
Answering Theists #1
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wrote 5 days ago: There are a lot of theists out there who type up what they think are “gotcha” questions … more →
Good Arguments
wrote 6 days ago: What’s the point of a rational argument? To give someone a good reason to believe something. A … more →
Do People Not Really Believe In Paradise?
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wrote 1 week ago: (Like herding rabbits) Over at Sam Harris’ blog, he says that Scott Atran claims that people d … more →
Anti-Doggerel #1: "I Don't Know"
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wrote 1 week ago: The beginning of wisdom is, ‘I do not know.’ [gestures toward the "hole in space" on the … more →
Consequences
wrote 1 week ago: “In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments – there are Consequences.” -R. G. Ingersoll ~~ … more →
Are human minds statistical machines?
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wrote 1 week ago: Human minds are the mother of all interesting things since anything that we might consider interesti … more →
Seven Refutations: Follow Up
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wrote 1 week ago: Seven Refutations got some attention from the oxymoronically entitled ‘Reasonable Faith’ … more →
Fallacies and Utter Acrimony (and there's a bit about Nails...)
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wrote 1 week ago: I’m troubled by a very famous ideology; something that I suspect exists back to circa Adam and Eve. … more →
One thing leads to another
wrote 1 week ago: I hate the slippery slope fallacy. It is greatly overused and can be effective even though it is an … more →
Philosophical Fallacies in Political Reasoning
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wrote 2 weeks ago: As a grad student in philosophy, I spend a lot of time pointing out the weaknesses in my own reasoni … more →
Philosophical Fallacies in Political Reasoning
wrote 2 weeks ago: As a grad student in philosophy, it’s my job (literally) to point out the weaknesses in my own … more →
The Fallacy of Neutrality
wrote 2 weeks ago: …while there is no such thing as neutrality in the telling of history, there is such a thing a … more →
Hard wired 14: Why Freud was almost right
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Love him or loathe him, nobody seriously can deny that Sigmund Freud dominated Western psychological … more →
Times A-Wastin’
wrote 2 weeks ago: “Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.” -Victor Hugo ~~~~~A few … more →
Educational Fallacies
wrote 2 weeks ago: (Note: I originally wrote this piece several months ago, when the Chicago teacher’s strike wa … more →
Shut Up & Listen When I tell you about 'Check Your Privilege'.
wrote 2 weeks ago: I want you to ‘check your privilege’ about the phrase, ‘check your privilege … more →
Japanese government bonds arithmetic
wrote 2 weeks ago: The commentariat is getting up in arms at every little move up of Japanese Government Bond (JGB) yie … more →
