Norman Swartz and Raymond Bradley’s Possible Worlds finally available
It has taken some time but now it is available for free on the net. You can find it right here.
Heinlein on time travel
"[speaking of going back in time] I'd particularly like to go back to my own childhood, see if things look as I recall them." Ira blinked. "Run a chance of…
Quote: Heinlein “Time Enough for Love”
"If I must wait a thousand years to understand that word," Hamadryad replied, "then I probably never will. Minerva says that it cannot be defined in Galacta and even when…
Status
Some of you may have noticed that I have removed the links from the blogs and moved them to the front page. I am in the middle of major overhaul…
Classical predicate logic and empty domains
Classical predicate logic and empty domains
Are contradictions meaningful?
Introduction In this essay I answer the question in the title with a very confident “Yes”, I give multiple arguments for this answer. For the purposes of this essay a…
So maybe Kant wasn’t such a nice guy anyway…
http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2010/03/kant-on-killing-bastards-on.html Have a read yourself. Thanks to Ben (blog∧¬blog) for the link.
Pyrrho on “Why are endangered species worth preserving?”
"There are multiple reasons that people give. One is that some people do not think that a world filled only with cattle and pig farms and other such animals, but…
Paper: David Makinson, The paradox of the preface
I found the original paper on the paradox. Enjoy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preface_paradox David Makinson, The paradox of the preface
Pyrrho on the Trolley Problem
"Suppose that there is a trolley that is headed toward five people tied to the tracks ahead. There is no switch, but there is a bridge with you and someone…
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