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Life's Private Book: Jerry Coyne and Mistaking the Definition of Science for a Conclusion of Science
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. - G.K. Chesterton. Friday, June 12, 2015. Jerry Coyne and Mistaking the Definition of Science for a Conclusion of Science. Sometimes an author puts two things together that make it clear what is going on in his project. Jerry Coyne, while discussing the nefarious influence of the Templeton Foundation's money on science (p. 20), tells us this:. Then, on page 23 while quoting L.R. Hamelin, we are informed that:. On Coyne). Coyne had a pu...
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Life's Private Book: Relating Ourselves to Indirect Knowledge, Pt. 2
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. - G.K. Chesterton. Saturday, July 18, 2015. Relating Ourselves to Indirect Knowledge, Pt. 2. This series, I began a discussion of how we can use reason to relate ourselves to indirect knowledge. We must test a mediator to discover whether he himself is able to separate his knowledge from his opinions, and so give us only his expert knowledge and not also, in addition, his non-expert and perhaps poorly founded opinions masquerading as exper...
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Life's Private Book: Kierkegaard, Fideism and Subjective Reasoning
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. - G.K. Chesterton. Wednesday, February 24, 2010. Kierkegaard, Fideism and Subjective Reasoning. The Maverick Philosopher has a post here. In which he asserts, in passing, that Kierkegaard was a fideist. The MP's definition of fideism is this:. Kierkegaard (SK) was not a fideist by this definition. In fact, his career was dedicated to overthrowing the list of alternatives the MP gives in his post:. We've seen B above]. The MP, as might be e...
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Life's Private Book: Christianity and Disproof
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. - G.K. Chesterton. Sunday, June 14, 2015. Jerry Coyne, on p. 61 of his. It's a useful exercise to ask religious people what it would take for them to either abandon the "nonnegotiables" of their fath - like the view that Jesus was divine or that the Quran is the world of Allah - or to give-up on their faith entirely. The tombs of victims of Roman crucifixion. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Most Important Dialog in the Godfather.
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Life's Private Book: Into the Wild and Individualism
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. - G.K. Chesterton. Tuesday, January 1, 2008. Into the Wild and Individualism. A Quiz: Which of the following is significantly different from the others? 5th Century Irish Monks (papar). All of these are mentioned by Jon Krakauer in Into the Wild. I thought your analysis on this topic was very insightful. January 3, 2008 at 8:45 AM. January 3, 2008 at 7:39 PM. January 3, 2008 at 7:39 PM. June 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM. The most important dialog i...
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Life's Private Book: Atheism As a Denial of the Question of God
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. - G.K. Chesterton. Tuesday, February 26, 2008. Atheism As a Denial of the Question of God. I’ve been reading The End of Faith. By Sam Harris and have posted on it once already here. In this post I would like to focus on a fundamental philosophical principle behind Harris’s argument. The basic philosophical questions never change. One such question is: What can I know and how can I know it? Note 26 to Chapter 2). His purpose is to deny the ...
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Life's Private Book: July 2015
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. - G.K. Chesterton. Saturday, July 18, 2015. Relating Ourselves to Indirect Knowledge, Pt. 2. This series, I began a discussion of how we can use reason to relate ourselves to indirect knowledge. We must test a mediator to discover whether he himself is able to separate his knowledge from his opinions, and so give us only his expert knowledge and not also, in addition, his non-expert and perhaps poorly founded opinions masquerading as exper...
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Life's Private Book: The Modeling Mind, Science and Post-Modernism
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. - G.K. Chesterton. Sunday, July 5, 2009. The Modeling Mind, Science and Post-Modernism. I discussed the theory of the mind that holds that the mind is thoroughly a model-maker. Be an end to model-building and a simple, direct appreciation of reality. A prejudice, for it is the prior principle that is itself not judged but in terms of which all other principles are judged. April 10, 2010 at 1:42 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The m...
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Life's Private Book: Relating Ourselves to Indirect Knowledge, pt. 1
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. - G.K. Chesterton. Sunday, June 28, 2015. Relating Ourselves to Indirect Knowledge, pt. 1. In my last post. I brought out the distinction between direct and indirect knowledge, and made the point that we can only evaluate indirect knowledge in light of direct knowledge; here I would like to explore that theme further. Knowledge, we evaluate the evidential and logical basis for the knowledge ourselves; in. Collected Dialogues of Plato.
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Life's Private Book: Life's Private Book
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. - G.K. Chesterton. Saturday, March 8, 2008. On the First Things blog I commented on here. Gives me a chance to write about the title of my blog, Life's Private Book. In the First Things blog, Stephen Barr draws a typically modern distinction between things he approaches through science. And things he approaches through instinct. July 2, 2012 at 9:21 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Most Important Dialog in the Godfather. More on...
