You are here: Home / PhilSci We’ll track the progress on this little project and check in from time to time. We did the tailgates (for about 120 people) for three years. Shown below is the A&S tailgate trailer which we had just taken custody of. Stay tuned. In the Vast Space of ‘How you Make Sense of the World’ Published
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Think about it Published on August 12, 2016 by Marica Aristotle contemplating a bust of Homer, Rembrandt van Rijm (1653) Homer, about 1040 BC Aristotle, 384-322 BC Rembrandt, 1606-1669 AD You and I, 19xx-
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Who remembers The Farm Circle? We met every other Friday afternoon July through early August, 2020. It was an attempt at “normal” life when people were up to here with the abnormal. We held it in the Apartment and conformed to all the dictates. It was a lot of fun. This was the last one,
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Originally posted February 2018. Do try the exercise. It’s fun! For every observable property φ conceived by us to be an objective feature of the world, we must concede the possibility that φ be sensorily detected by means other than the particular means used by us. Paul Churchland, Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind, Cambridge University
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But the food is just as good!
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If you’d have asked me if Franklin and Hume knew each other and corresponded, I would not have known how to answer. But it makes sense that they did!
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From “Chapter XIII: Recess? Never Heard of It” in Miss Missy’s School Book I: A Pack of Farm Dogs Starts a School I wish I could excerpt this whole chapter! It begins with Bebe having a little fit because she doesn’t want to go to school. She thinks they are horrible places. She dramatically throws
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Nevertheless, as this FREE knockoff of SPSS is FREE, and is mostly devoted to data analysis rather than graphic representation of data (though it looks like it has pretty good descriptive statistics), there is not a lot of attention to the finer details of graph presentation. I will probably stop wasting time on this and
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Historians’ Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought, David Hackett Fischer (1970) Nunc pro tunc translates to “now for then,” and is apparently also a legal term. There is as well the concept of presentism in Philosophy. It’s unrelated to the concept as it’s used in literary and historical analysis. Surprisingly, that infallible source has
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Powerline’s The Week in Pictures which is better this week than it has been.
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The Week in Pictures
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I have no original thoughts this morning so I wondered what I was thinking around this date in years past. And look what I found! At the end I comment on cleaning my desk. I actually remember doing this. It was over loaded with books. What’s amazing is that I’ve managed to keep it underloaded.
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We did it! Mr. Big Food, two friends and colleagues, and I put on an in-person conference at a hotel on the Gulf of Mexico. There were hugs & handshakes as folk saw fit according to their comfort levels. There were excellent talks. Socializing, even! The person who’d been most timid about participating said she
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I had to vacuum the Den and the master bath before I figured it out! Solution below the fold. To clarify a bit. Each of the four shapes has one value (positive integers). The numbers in each of the eight figures are the sum of the shape’s value PLUS the values of the shape(s) it
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It’s really getting green out everywhere out there! Well, except for what’s covered with pine pollen. Last day on the Mathematics and Logic course. Things are going well. Learned a lot.
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is impossible. You can square pretty much all other shapes, even lunes (crescents) but you cannot square a circle because our old friend pi is a transcendental number. Now you know. And now I will return to a project I began earlier this morning. Trust me when I tell you that the folk who are
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There are no parallel lines on a sphere. Now you know.
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We’ve been dealing with the aftermath of last month’s cold. I will not go into detail but the following words will give you a clue. Lake. Frozen. Ice. Deer. Thirst. 5-degrees. Deersicle. 70-degrees. Floating. Stink. Waiting. For. Buzzards. And I just now wondered how the Beavers managed. I’m sure they were altogether cozy warm in
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sure were smart. This is a fun course. Good exercise for the old neurons. I especially like the proof showing that the square root of 2 is an irrational number. And I will be honest and tell you that I was stopped dead in my note taking when it hit me. I wrote: RATIO RATIONAL
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I started taking a Hillsdale College online course, Mathematics and Logic: From Euclid to Modern Geometry. The second lecture ended with a puzzle from Lewis Carroll. Everyone who is sane can do logic. No lunatics are fit to serve on a jury. None of your sons can do logic. The puzzle to to views your
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