VIII. DIMENSIONS, SHAPES, AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY We live in a three-dimensional world. Too quick. We conceive of our world as three-dimensional, but it doesn’t follow that it is. Though it may be – we’ll have to see – that for all… Read More ›
Month: September 2024
ONTOLOGY – SEVENTH INSTALMENT
VII. FINITISM – PART TWO The issue here is Zeno’s Paradox and how to resolve it. To get from here to there I first have to cover half the distance, then half the remaining distance, then half the distance still… Read More ›
ONTOLOGY – SIXTH INSTALMENT
VI. FINITISM – PART ONE In his Third Meditation, Rene Descartes offered a unique version of Aquinas’ Cosmological Argument for the existence of God. It goes like this. Everything we experience we experience as not going on forever. Even if… Read More ›
FROM THE YES-BUT-DON’T-SAY-IT FILE
The core axiom driving any cognising organism is to treat like cases alike. And this, of course, requires that it distinguish between this collection of things and that collection of things. These distinctions are not always easy. Are we in… Read More ›
Guest Post. And now for something completely different …
Complementing an academic’s freedom to dissent is the maximal removal of impediments to her pursuit of hypotheses and matters of fact about the stuff that furnishes the universe and of the universe itself. This stuff undergirds the core investigations of… Read More ›
Paulosophical Vimplications 