Kennethamy on boring books and learning
piratefish I'm reading Irving Copi's Introduction to Logic, very boring and not that well written, any suggestions? Just a college level book that gives a comprehensive intro to the topic.…
piratefish I'm reading Irving Copi's Introduction to Logic, very boring and not that well written, any suggestions? Just a college level book that gives a comprehensive intro to the topic.…
Some people sometimes mention that deduction conforms to the GIGO principle. I will here show that in a straightforward interpretation of that, it is false. “Garbage in, garbage out” is…
Wiki. Source. Kennethamy: Well, here is an example: in English we use the terms, "believe" and "know" very differently, from which we can infer that there is a difference between…
Two days ago, Blizzard posted some statistical data about the top 200 (really is 199) players in Europe. I did a bit of statistical analysis on that data and made…
Give it a read. It is divided into 4 parts: My Take on the Liar Paradox (Part I of IV) My Take on the Liar Paradox (Part II of IV)…
In two articles one can read about the how some people think we should save the music industry. How to save the music industry by Paul McGuinness. U2's manager: how…
I was kindly sent a PDF version of this essay (same as this one). The text is all there, I think, but the textformat is annoying to read. So, I…
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…
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…