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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.…
I'm giving a keynote address at a conference in India; more next week.
…appears in print in the Journal of Legal Studies. Despite being derided and dismissed last year by intellectual heavyweights like Paul Campos, Matt Leichter, and Elie Mystal, it somehow survived peer review. Imagine that. (You can read Prof. Simkovic's response to some of the Dunning-Kruger Effect crowd here.)
Dear Terence (if I may) We are rather wandering off-topic, but yes I stand by my relatively low estimate of…