January 2011
7 posts
sovereignsoul asked: So, I'm currently taking a logic class, but we haven't really learned what p or q could possibly meaan in a real life situation. Why is Modus Ponens your favorite?
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend. They shall never be broken.”
– Albert Camus (via bowsuicide)
Why we should teach philosophy to kids...
Via the BPS Research Digest: A recent study on the long-term benefits of the Socratic method. In a study of 105 children, all around 10 years old, teachers spent an hour a week for 16 months teaching lessons based on philosophical inquiry.
The philosophy-based lessons encouraged a community approach to “inquiry” in the classroom, with children sharing their views on Socratic questions...
On Death...
There’s a crack in the edge at the end of the world where I will sit with my love in this fluorescent swirl eat us up, break it down, in the tiniest cell in our room with a view and a window to hell. Where those who bearing bodies in their barrels of fun will be marched through museums that display what they’ve done. They`ll be shot up through the sky by a cannon of sin where...
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Modus Ponens: If P, then Q. P. Therefore, Q. It is my favorite valid inference rule. Used extremely often in logic to solve proofs, for those who are unfamiliar.
Doesn’t the idea that God was somehow involved in the making of the universe seem immensely more reasonable than believing that some random form of matter has existed for all of time, or that matter just up and popped into existence? “So you’re asking whether it’s more plausible that everything in the known universe including man was made by a supernatural being, in 6 days, than from a...