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Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog

The universe is made of failium!

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:2. March 2009
  • Post category:Humor/Literary nonsense
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Researches [Who?] has recently discovered that the universe is made of failium. Failium is a newly discovered element which has the number 0. It has the remarkable ability to fail…

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Tough modal logic formalization

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:27. February 2009
  • Post category:Logic/Religion
  • Post comments:2 Comments

Source. Gamgee wrote: In the Ontological Argument, Anselm refutes Guanilo's Perfect Island criticism by stating that God has Aseity. Anselm does not, as far as i know, make any attempt…

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JTB+ and the first person perspective

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:23. February 2009
  • Post category:Epistemology
  • Post comments:1 Comment

Emil Kirkegaard I have already expanded a bit on certain problematic aspects of the JTB+ theory. In this essay I will expand on a certain methodological feature: If you're "looking"…

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A quick argument for the principle of simplicity

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:19. February 2009
  • Post category:Epistemology
  • Post comments:3 Comments

Suppose there is a world where there are facts F1, F2, F3, ... Fn that need to be explained. Suppose further that someone advances an infinite amount of theories that…

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Dangerous anti-sex addiction, DASA

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:18. February 2009
  • Post category:Humor
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Ken: Are you addicted to writing posts? HelpingHand: Yes, I am. In fact, the other night, my wife was trying to seduce me, but I felt a sudden urge to…

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Response to Cartesian's case for broad theism

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:17. February 2009
  • Post category:Religion
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Abstract: I respond to Cartesian's case for broad theism as argued with an argument from souls. response-to-cartesians-case-for-broad-theism

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Incomplete propositions, time parameters

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:15. February 2009
  • Post category:Language/Multilogues

Dialogue Deleet: Reality changes all the time such that the truth value of propositions change. For instance, the proposition "Deleet is alive" is true right now but it will become…

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The source of … and definitions

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:22. January 2009
  • Post category:Logic/Religion
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Abstract The problem is how freely we are 'allowed' to define things. In this essay I will address a definition similar to “x is the source of ...”. I conclude…

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Quote: David Hume

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:21. January 2009
  • Post category:Philosophy
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. Source: A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40) Part 4 Of the sceptical and other systems of philosophy,…

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Knowledge as a kind of belief… maybe

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:9. January 2009
  • Post category:Epistemology
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I was just discussing this over at FreeRatio.org. I made the claim, which seemed intuitively true to me, that knowledge (JTB+) is a kind of belief. This caused some controversy.…

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