Worth reading: Mark Twain, “The Awful German Language”
This essay on the german language is definitely worth reading. Especially if one has ever taken a german class as I recently have. I found the text here. I made…
Infallible knowledge, the modal fallacy and modal collapse
The much mentioned the modal fallacy is not a fallacy (that is, is a valid inference rule) if one accepts an exotic view about modalities and necessities that is logically…
“Stop raping language!”
I love when people use the phrase "Stop raping language!". It's a bloody inconsistent performative.
Work in progress…
As it can be seen, the blog has been divided into an english and a danish section. This is the english section. I'm in the progress of removing danish language…
Frege and anti-semitism
I was recently made aware of an odd fact. Modern logic's inventor, Frege, was not as adorable as many people perhaps think he was. Quoting IEP: Although he was a…
New page: Constructing truth tables – Filling in the wff's
I wrote a small guide about how to use truth tables to evaluate wff's. I explained two methods to do this. Page: Constructing truth tables - Filling in the wff's…
Download: Philosophical books en masse!
Rapidshare link (updated as of 21. September 2009) Follow the link and download these books I will update this post if I can figure out a way to avoid having…
Being a good intellectual
Can there be given a list of important virtues for any good intellectual? Perhaps I cannot provide a exhaustive one but I can suggest a few. Virtue 1 “You should…
Quote: Bertrand Russell
"Philosophy, throughout its history, has consisted of two parts inharmoniously blended; on the one hand a theory as to the nature of the world, on the other an ethical or…
Logical impossibilities
What does impossible mean? Other than 'not-possible'. Logical impossibility is the topic of this essay. More specifically we're going to explore the two distinct meanings of logical impossible that I…