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Dear Terence (if I may) We are rather wandering off-topic, but yes I stand by my relatively low estimate of…
Is it so? I would have liked to have overlapped more with Williams’ writing career, for the joy (or experience…
I asked Claude about the notion of “planetary telepathy,” based on the concept and architecture of an Internet of Things…
Thank you, this is very helpful. If you’re willing to indulge me, I have a few questions. First, there’s a…
Very clever, but why stop at validity? Surely a sound argument for the existence of God is better than an…
Modern logic is a branch of philosophy and ALSO a branch of mathematics, but the profession of logic seems to…
Dear John, I hope you’re sitting down. I knew John Hagelin when I was in high school fifty years ago.…
…due to increasingly unhinged comments I infer. Too bad, it was sometimes quite amusing as it ridiculed "the Daily Snooze," "NudeChapps," the"Feminist Philosophers" and me (no nickname stuck), but I'm not surprised it got out of control: the first law of cyberspace is: anonymity + no adult oversight=cyber-cesspool.
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