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Hume’s Guillotine, Euclid’s Catapult: Induction, Axioms, and Objective Ethics
You will have heard that David Hume claimed ethical oughts cannot be derived from any factual is (empirical observation). This is called Hume’s Guillotine, presumably for the great number of people who lost their heads thinking about it. Ma...
University of California Prof Tries To Save System From DIEing
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The Equality Paradox
Here is a picture that does not seem to matter much:
They are all well known rulers of various localities (I almost said nations). The modern ones in the bottom tier are dressed poorly. Note carefully I did not say cheaply. It is as a rule...
My Horrible Interaction With AI
Forgive me, I beg, the odd, breezy posting schedule this week. I reasoned that many would still be on vacation and wanted to save the (for a word) denser material for next week. Like the article on deriving objective morality: not simple, n...
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UPDATE: Man, that is the last time I use AI for anything like this. I thought it a cute way to introduce the second edition of (the surprisingly popular) Everything You Believe Is Wrong. But the instant I put it up on YouTube, several follo...
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William M. Briggs was born in Detroit at the height of its majesty. The Air Force taught him electronic cryptography. He became a weatherman, then went back to school to learn to do physics, mathematics, then, at last, philosophy of science.
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