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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.…
> These are obviously two different things, but my sense is that part of the…paradigm shift that resulted in infinitely…
In memory of the inventor of this ingenious argument and its faithful reporter, both recently lost: “Is the ontological argument…
I did not know Timothy Smiley well, and his pioneering joint book on Plural Logics is sitting on my shelves…
Smiley cowrote the single best introduction to his field (formally and otherwise) I think will ever be written. I’m grateful…
Worldly Indeterminacy, by Chien-hsing Ho, at Oxford University Press. Available at: https://academic.oup.com/book/63418. Description The book provides a framework to support…
That sounds about right, although he's also trying to conceal his assets in bankruptcy. This is a case where one wished that the U.S., like many European countries, had criminal defamation statutes, so that this venal and disturbed individual could at least be sent to prison.
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