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Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog

Assertion and inference rules

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:8. September 2009
  • Post category:Epistemology/Logic
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Possible Worlds quote: “In the second place, the concept of conjunction can be conveyed without using any sentence connective whatever. One way - indeed one of the commonest of all…

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The many ways

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:7. September 2009
  • Post category:Literary nonsense
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So, I am on my way home a Sunday in May and when I get into my apartment I find that my roommate has left his bike helmet on the…

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Sidewalk god…

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:3. September 2009
  • Post category:Humor/Multilogues
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Emil: There is an infinite number of possible Gods. Without evidence every guess is as good as the others or nearly so. The chance of guessing the right God is…

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Kiddie porn…

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:3. September 2009
  • Post category:Humor
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'Nuff said.

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An appeal to skepticism about reasoning

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:1. September 2009
  • Post category:Logic/Philosophy
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Unaided and aided reasoning Humans reason about many things. Some things are more complex than other things. The more complex a thing is, the more probably it is that one…

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Physical impossibility and ought implies can

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:30. August 2009
  • Post category:Ethics
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I was watching The Unbearable Lightness of Being when a scene suddenly made me realize a possible problem with regularity theory of physical laws and the ought implies can principle.…

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The dispositional account of belief and an infinite number of beliefs

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:28. August 2009
  • Post category:Epistemology
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Quote from The Web of Belief “Rather, believing is a disposition that can linger latent and unobserved. It is a disposition to respond in certain ways when the appropriate issue…

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Quote: Bertrand Russell

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:28. August 2009
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"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…

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Torrentfreak article: "Independent Film Company Responds To BERR Consultation"

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:27. August 2009
  • Post category:Copyright and filesharing
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Read this great article about copyright, the film industry and the usual stuff.

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“But you don't know that you know that!”

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:26. August 2009
  • Post category:Epistemology/Multilogues
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Fast: “We need to keep in mind that "I know that I know" is ambiguous between 1) I am certain and 2) I have knowledge that I know. The latter…

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