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…
Some modal fallacy whine
Given how much debate the modal fallacy have spawned on FRDB, it's interesting to note how little two academics wrote about it when they encountered it while discussing knowledge skepticism:…
Oscar Wilde – Intentions
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.
XKCD’s NP-Complete
Opening paragraph: "I was reading XKCD along with a friend and we came across a comic. He wanted to continue reading but I wanted to solve it! [...]" Extensive mathematical…
Some different deterministic theses
Determinism is a fairly broad thesis, and some formulations of it does not "work" with Swartz's regularity theory. Below I have outlined some different deterministic theses. Minimal Causal Determinism (MCD):…