Blogs about: Occams Razor
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Time Traveler Caught on Film? More Like “Whackjob in a Youtube Video”
Oh my… some days something crosses my email inbox, and while a part of me says “this is just too silly, let it go” another part of me insists that this is simply something which must… more →
The Skeptical Teacher
Daniel Dennett's seven tools for thinking
wrote 12 hours ago: Cognitive scientist and philosopher Daniel Dennett is one of America’s foremost thinkers. In t … more →
If You Can Dodge A Wrench, You Can't Necessarily Dodge a Wall: Dodgers Nail Nats With Headshot, Win Series
wrote 2 days ago: “He seems dead to me. Where’s the nearest meat grinder?” Game 1: Nationals 6, Dodg … more →
Ideologues Don’t Make Corrections
wrote 6 days ago: Alyson_H Flickr Stream by (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Published at OpEdNews by Joe Giambrone Ideology … more →
Recurring Themes, Cyclical Flaws
wrote 6 days ago: A recurring theme in the Being and Mind world-view is that space is limitless. It is for this reason … more →
A Thomistic Cosmological Argument
wrote 1 week ago: Aquinas’ original argument from his famous Five Proofs defended the premises 1. Whatever is mo … more →
Cliff Diving and Ghostbusters
wrote 1 week ago: I thought I’d get a little cliff diving in on my run tonight. According to my GPS data, I ran … more →
Sandy Hook Digital Alterations - 2
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wrote 1 week ago: The art of photoshopping is in how well your finished product not only gives the illusion of reality … more →
How writing has changed...
wrote 1 week ago: Only a fool would think the writings of today the same as those years ago. True, we look at papers o … more →
The Fifth Element Returns
wrote 2 weeks ago: Due to close adherence to the principle of Occam’s Razor, the sciences deal only with entities … more →
Odds and Ends
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wrote 2 weeks ago: This kickstarter was recently brought to my attention. It’s for a webseries about LARPing call … more →
How To Take Something That Isn’t A Big Deal And Make It The Biggest Deal In The World
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Sometimes the best way to do something is to know exactly how not to do it. Here’s how to blow thing … more →
Save that lanolin, we'll use it on the new busboy....
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Ffolkes, I know, now, how the White Rabbit felt, as he hurried down the rabbit hole to Wonderland, … more →
Occam's Razor and Applesauce
wrote 2 weeks ago: As I was cutting apples for applesauce this morning I was thinking about simplicity. Here’s m … more →
Brother Bill had a razor
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wrote 3 weeks ago: For those who don’t know, “Occam’s razor” is a theory of problem solving attributed to a Franciscan … more →
Problems and the Petri dish
wrote 3 weeks ago: Why do we persistently transform simple issues into complex problems? Most of us agree that the worl … more →
Ghosts of the Past
wrote 3 weeks ago: Ghosts of the Past The Lizzie Borden House Investigation By Dave Cassenti It’s a rhyme that many kid … more →
Philosophy & Science "Questions to answer"
wrote 3 weeks ago: Great philosophical questions that are seen never to be solved Philosophy goes where hard science ca … more →
Occam's razor
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wrote 4 weeks ago: On a number of occasions, I’ve encountered climate skeptics invoking Occam’s razor to cl … more →
Teapotology for Beginners
wrote 1 month ago: The Celestial Teapot is a very fertile meme, and masterpiece of misdirection originating from the mi … more →
