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The web of belief approach: The case with Newton’s physics and relativity

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:26. June 2010
  • Post category:Epistemology
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This will not involve many science facts as the discussion is wholly philosophical in nature. This is an epistemological, not scientific essay, it just happens to use some facts of…

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What does “begging the question” mean?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:15. June 2010
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Introduction Abstract In this essay I attempt to clarify what it means to say that an argument begs the question. One may think that it is a fairly straightforward matter…

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An examination of randomness in Heroes of Newerth

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:12. June 2010
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An examination of randomness in Heroes of Newerth ----------- First published June 12, 2010. Revised 30 July, 2010. Introduction In this essay I will examine the different kinds of randomness…

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The contagiosity of meaninglessness – formalised for propositional logic

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:5. June 2010
  • Post category:Language/Logic
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In an earlier essay I mentioned that that meaninglessness is contagious with respect to sentences. One can pretty easily formulate the principle in normal english - if a sentence is…

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Sentence theories of truth, meaningless sentences and untrue sentences

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:5. June 2010
  • Post category:Language/Logic
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By sentence theory I just mean a theory of truth carriers that implies that some sentences are true or some are false. Not necessarily a monist sentence theory (=theory that…

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Less activity

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:3. June 2010
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This is not because I am not actively writing anything. It is because I am working on a very large (for me) project - a reform proposal to the danish…

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A dissimilarity between “believe” and “know”

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:3. June 2010
  • Post category:Epistemology
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I noticed a small dissimilarity between the two words. As I have pointed out numerous times in the past, the phrase “I don't believe that p” is ambiguous between belief…

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