Twitter talk on the 2019 Australian election campaign, weeks 5-6
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Twitter talk on the 2019 Australian election campaign, weeks 3-4
This post is a continuation of the documenting of twitter talk about an election campaign begun here. Thursday April 25th...
Accidental non-fiction
A narrative text sets out the romantic but tumultuous journey of A. and B. as their true affection for one...
backwards-branching time and fictive Socrates
implications for Plato. ..if statements about some particular, necessary past are True and statements about alternatives False, then Plato, in...
Notes on time
Questions on time Is time finite in extent or infinite? Is it parcels at the ‘shortest duration’ or continuous,...
Genesis (agnostic variant)
In the beginning was the word or it was quiet, or disquiet, or a singularity, or an infinite sequence of...
A bare bones typology of atheisms
Fundamentalist atheism an ideology grounded in the belief that without doubt there exist no deities, by any definition that might...
Polemic: why argue for truth in fiction
Aristotle argued (according to notes from his lectures, later collated) that there are three distinct kinds of speech or literature. ...
A Sceptical method of inquiry
Consider a question in the light of a conclusion, theory, or argument that seems right. The theory ought to be...
A theology of doubt
In general doubt’s my truth, and might be the only thing I don’t doubt (though I doubt I doubt enough,...