1 day ago by rubberbloodfactory

Are empiricism and positivism “isms” in the sense that “feminism”, “Marxism”, and so forth are? I would wager that many social scientists do not think so. Indeed, science itself is usually held to be not just different, but superior — in a league of its own — compared to other theories or ways of th ...

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3 days ago by Ed H. Chi

Start off 2009 with a more philosophical entry... I was recently in Asia to give the keynote talk at the International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (in Bali, Indonesia!) In my recent travels and talks, I have been asked about the relationship between the latest buzz on " Cloud Computing" an ...

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3 days ago by Kimberly Bock

In an effort to gain a more complete understanding of human nature, and the historical aspects of social change, social change philosophy & the what’s where’s how’s & who’s of it’s exploration, I stumbled across David Hume. David Hume, historian, essayist, empiricist. Definition of empiricism: Wikip ...

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8 days ago by admin

The fraud of the modern education, and the brainwashing of our politicians.

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9 days ago by Eric Kemp

I find it discourteous when someone I was arguing with would leave valid points on the table and never respond. Yet, lately, I’ve found myself leaving many discussions with atheists just as they were getting started. I figured it had something to do with the fact that these discussions were taking p ...

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9 days ago by TQ

I remember when I was a first year student in secondary school having a very young teacher for science who informed us that we should all develop "a curious nose." Curiosity is one of the greatest motives in the pursuit of knowledge. What naturalist or scientist has ever not been curious? Curiosity ...

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10 days ago by TQ

I suppose if meditation does anything for me is that it helps me wake up to my senses. Commonly, we admit that there are five senses, but a friend who is a Occupational Therapist tells me that there are seven of them. ( OTs list some seven senses, adding the vestibular or balancing sense and the pro ...

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11 days ago by Tim Jones

As the last remnants of Christmas turkey fall to sandwich and soup, forget not Bertrand Russell’s musings on the fate of turkeys subscribing to Francis Bacon’s philosophy of inductivist scientific reasoning. They don’t see it coming (photo WikiCommons) On his first day at the farm, the turkey noted ...

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13 days ago by admin

The fraud of the modern education, and the brainwashing of our politicians.

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14 days ago by Jim

Writing for the New York Times, Olivia Judson observed yesterday that more than one luminary’s birth has been pegged to the day of December 25: Isaac Newton was also born on that day, at least under the older Julian calendar. That makes today Isaac Newton Eve. Judson somewhat jeeringly suggests that ...

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