Worth reading: The Streisand Effect
Thanks to TorrentFreak for enlightening me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Quote from SEP on Pornography and Censorship
Link to article on SEP. Consider the following quote: "The term "pornography" is used in all of these different ways in everyday discourse and debate, as well as in philosophical…
A note about modal collapse
Removed due to lack of quality.
“Do you still beat your wife?” formalized
Using the formalization system I wrote of earlier, let's take a look at this famous question. First we should note that this is a yes/no question which is different from…
Some ideas about formalizing questions and answers
Formalization of questions and answers is not a much discussed nor studied topic. Though there is a branch of logic dealing with it, erotetic logics. I admit not to have…
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…