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- human's unrestrained ability to kill? Otherwise the same criticism would apply to "normal" Darwinianism of animals in general. (p. 9 DF)6:49 PM Dec 8th, 2008 from web
- Is his (Stove's) claim that under strict Darwinian direction "...there would soon be no children, no women and hence, no men..." due to6:48 PM Dec 8th, 2008 from web
- Is it true that "no tribe of humans could possibly exist ... could even raise a second generation..." (Stove) following Darwinianism?6:40 PM Dec 8th, 2008 from web
- Is such a 'thinking machine', whether brain or artificial construct, even possible?6:01 PM Aug 26th, 2007 from web
- David Deutsch talks of a virtual reality machine that responds to an infinite set of variables.6:01 PM Aug 26th, 2007 from web
- Found bookswim.com via lifehacker.com. Couldn't find many philosophy books other than those relating specifically to religion. Too bad.5:58 AM Aug 23rd, 2007 from Twitterrific
- There is simply not enough time in a day to read all I want to read. (Or do all I want to do.)8:10 PM Aug 22nd, 2007 from Twitterrific
- Explanations of 'because' cannot compete against the explanation of 'why.'9:06 PM Aug 21st, 2007 from Twitterrific
- Just because a theory is self-consistent, its explanations may prove it wrong nonetheless.9:06 PM Aug 21st, 2007 from Twitterrific
- Deutsch FoR:"In the absence of an independent explanation for why angels should pretend to be photons, that latter explanation is superior."9:05 PM Aug 21st, 2007 from web
- Learning about optical interference and not understanding the slit experiments with photos (i.e. why interference shows as it does),7:54 PM Aug 20th, 2007 from Twitterrific
- We mislead ourselves by thinking that deduction always trumps observation - especially when the two disagree.7:24 PM Aug 20th, 2007 from Twitterrific
- For Deutsch, this seems to debunk the power of reductionist scientific thinking - i.e. reducing knowledge to purely deductive reasoning.7:23 PM Aug 20th, 2007 from Twitterrific
- Deutsch FoR: most of our particular knowledge about things comes from 'high-level theories'7:22 PM Aug 20th, 2007 from Twitterrific
- re Deutsch FoR - predictive power is something different than explanatory power.7:18 PM Aug 20th, 2007 from web
- re Aquinas on MP, do we limit the concept of substance to physical, contained bodies, or can substance be something else.4:28 PM Apr 15th, 2007 from web
- "...that which is known first, is known best..."4:22 PM Apr 15th, 2007 from web
- CAM/Aquinas 1259: "substance is first in the order of knowing..."4:22 PM Apr 15th, 2007 from web
- Aquinas: In order to establish what being is, it will help to establish the truth (nature) of substance.4:03 PM Apr 15th, 2007 from im
- MP 1028b1 "And we think we know each thing most fully, when we know what it is, e.g. what man is or what fire is, rather than when we know i...3:27 PM Apr 15th, 2007 from im
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- Name Der Philosoph
- Location SE WI
- Web http://c.ogi.to/
- Bio I yearn to understand. We are thinking beings capable of what?
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