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Two ideas for torrent clients

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:29. July 2009
  • Post category:Computer science
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Automatic addition of trackers With the probable closure of The Pirate Bay (TPB) in the near future the torrent scene will be more decentralized. Especially if the TPB tracker goes…

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Ad: Courtroom Quotations

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:28. July 2009
  • Post category:Humor
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This is absolutely hilarious! http://rinkworks.com/said/courtroom.shtml Quoting: "The following quotations are taken from official court records across the nation, showing how funny and embarrassing it is that recorders operate at all…

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Language, truth makers and truth guides

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:24. July 2009
  • Post category:Language
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The issue is what the truth maker is of a certain type (subset), L, of propositions. A proposition belongs to L iff it has the form “X is the correct…

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Grammatical conjugation with verbs

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:22. July 2009
  • Post category:Language
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A little experiment using another style of writing. My inspiration is this short story by Smullyan.1 It is very good. Some background knowledge of epistemology is advised. First is the…

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Implying a category error

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:11. July 2009
  • Post category:Language/Philosophy
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It sometimes happens that one is analyzing some theory and one discovers that the theory in some sense implies something meaningless. But that doesn’t make sense when we think about…

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Oscar Wilde – Intentions

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:10. July 2009
  • Post category:Uncategorized
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In case someone wants to read this book, I have reformatted it to a neat PDF version. It can be found in the download section and here.

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Sound arguments and rationally convincing arguments

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:8. July 2009
  • Post category:Logic
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I've read many times and places that an argument is sound iff 1.      The argument is valid. 2.      All the premises of the argument are true. [1] Let's call this…

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Stone-paradox – revised and explained

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:7. July 2009
  • Post category:Religion
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I posted this text a long time ago in Danish and I translated it and used it on the forum. I think I forgot to post the English version here…

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