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Archive for August 2006

Notes on the Intersection of Occam’s Razor, Epistemology, and the Supernatural

I’ve been sucked into a nearly overwrought discussion about, initially, Occam’s Razor, and thereafter what its use says about belief without evidence, and the like. There aren’t many people with whom I can carry on like this in-person, so I for one credit the current iteration of the internet a philosophical boon.
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Look, Up in the Sky!

It sounds tautological, I know; but there is utility in the distinction between what we can hope to feed our cognition, and what we can’t. Current ID claims of irreducible complexity attempt to infer a designer of everything, with arguments that boil down to, “The Lord works in mysterious ways.” The argument is based on [...]

An Orgy of Type and Color

I know it’s a sign of some ignorance, but I loves me a big, fat chain bookstore. Shelves after shelves of tomes and pamphlets and magazines and graphic novels. It’s an orgy of type and color and potential infatuation or disappointment, and everyone’s invited, no matter how high-brow or trite or picayune or [...]

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