An experimental personal conceptual knowledgebase.
A blog-based commonplace book.
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12, 2016
“Is” applies only to the a priori
The certainty of identity expressed in the verb “to be” [...]
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11, 2016
Natural rights: nonsense upon stilts
"natural rights ... simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical [...]
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11, 2016
Mind as a Camera Metaphor
The human mind is like a camera with both automatic [...]
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11, 2016
Argumentative Theory of Reasoning
Reason is a form of social intelligence evolved not to [...]
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11, 2016
Confabulation: Your brain is a fabulous storyteller. Don’t believe it.
Priming.Unconscious motivation.Motivated reasoning.
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11, 2016
Proof, Certainty, & Truth are not real-world concepts
Proof, certainty, and truth apply only to formal logical and [...]
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11, 2016
Extensible Umwelt
Our model of the world is a function of the [...]
7
11, 2016
Perception is prediction
The likely mechanism by which confirmation bias works and in [...]
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11, 2016
Copernican principle
It's probably nothing special.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_principle
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11, 2016
Pessimistic meta-induction from the history of ideas
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal [...]