Essay stands on it’s own but for more context: See part 1 on theories of truth See part 2 on solipsism See part 3 on scientific (anti)realism. This conclude the essay series on Truth and Existence: A Philosophical Landscape >>> How Natural is a Naturalist? If we have all these messes now, what shall we do with the actual Read More
Essay stands on it’s own but for more context: See part 1 See part 2 >>> Okay. For now, forget about papers. Let’s assume that papers exist as papers, not as a potential X”; and that science can give a true description of the observable parts of the world because we perceive the real thing. Read More
See part 1 We can do metaphysical solipsism first, and if you are about it, the argument goes roughly as follows: 1) your mind is the only thing that you have access to, 2) confirmation of mind outside one’s mental state is impossible, 3) therefore only your mind exists. The kernel of the argument is Read More
Preamble: In this series of essays that I will write over the next several weeks/months, I will undertake a multipronged journey investigating what is true in (all) the philosophical sense of the word. As such, I will be touching on the philosophy of the mind, science, and the like. The journey begins with a brief review Read More
The 2 ways of knowing – Housekeeping and arguments – the adjectives were nowhere to be found – The p values that couldn’t save Billy – Respice post te. Hominem te memento – An epistemic meditation on the COVID-19 Pandemic – Writing as a manner of concluding Friends permit me to start with Hume’s fork. Read More
On Coronavirus and Universities Me: Did you hear? Imhotep: Hear what? Me: That they are closing universities; Going online; Coronavirus things. Imhotep: Urh, a number of departments, as we know it today should have been closed a long time ago, wellllllll before the coronavirus incident. Me: [looking non-plussed] Imhotep: Surprised? Are you surprised by my Read More
The first desirable step to knowing God is knowing about him. Knowing God is a personal affair but knowing about him, one could say is doingTheology (with the capital T). [1] An improper or flimsy knowledge about God might interfere with knowing God. That is, people of faith might drift away when the reasonableness of falling Read More
One: Nubia, Mimesis and the Philosophy of Preferences I do remember, quite vividly, dancing to ‘Segun Akinlolu’s jagbalajugbu when I was in junior secondary school in my parent’s backyard, say age eleven, twelve. This was in the early 2000s. My back, slightly bent. Arms formed a V-shape. I made my legs take turn to split apart Read More
Imhotep is gradually becoming a charm and he stopped coming on the second Friday of every other month. He now shows up frequently but his appearance is now immune to any precise predictions. I continued to take notes in my dream notepad sitting right by my bed lamp, and my friends continued to ignore my Read More
Long, long ago, during the days of the great Macows. When the earth shook of wisdom, down to its knee. During the days where great and sincere intellectuals were easy to come by, like sands on the beach. A group of intellectual itinerants were particularly famous. They roamed Siaulai and had occasional and fecund lectures Read More