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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 science. I want to show the value of thinking of things as inconsistent sets of propositions (or whatever truth carrier you like, but I like…
Continue ReadingIntroduction 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 but my analysis reveals that it isn’t so. Shorthands “BTQ” means begging the question, or begs the question whichever is grammatically correct on the context….
Continue ReadingAn 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 involved in Heroes of Newerth (=HON). Later I suggest some ways to reduce or remove the effects of randomness on gameplay. Randomness affected elements Randomness…
Continue ReadingIn 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 meaningless, then so is any more complex sentence of which it is a part of. To get a proper, formal formulation of this we may…
Continue ReadingBy 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 implies that sentences are the only kind of truth carriers) or a theory of sentences as primary truth carriers (=theory that implies that sentences are…
Continue ReadingThis 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 orthography. Currently the draft is about 40 pages and it is not done yet. It is written in danish and I do not expect to…
Continue ReadingI 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 in not-p and lack of belief in p. However the similar phrase for knowledge, “I don’t know that p” is not similarly ambiguous. It is…
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