Article about science being right or wrong Yet another article that doesn’t get that science works by approximation. They make the usual mistake of thinking in terms of absolute truth or falsehood.
‘Why?’ and the Global Warming Debate
At the outset, I would like to define a collection of words that may not be “standard”, but suit my purposes, as follows: consciousness – A sense of one’s own existence. teleologic – Acting to achieve an end result. This may be contrasted with activity (like rolling downhill) that merely reacts to impersonal forces. teleology – The capacity to act … Read More
Hacking the Root Problem
Introduction & Dedication Here is a tiny sliver of Titus Lucretius’ epic poem ‘De Rerum Natura’ (‘The Nature of Things’): Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there. Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we … Read More
Objectivity and Leaving Truth
One of the first things I had to grapple with in trying to understand the LT philosophy is how you square what you might call “objectivity” with lack of Truth. Indeed, what would objectivity even mean in this case? To survive as long as I did – as an atheist in a sea of believers, with problems requiring divine intervention … Read More
The Dress and evolved loopholes
In the news recently was #TheDress. It’s a dress that appears black and blue to some people, white and gold to other people. It tricks the eye. I have no idea if the people who made the dress expected this to happen or if they did it deliberately. Parlor magic is a science that exploits this type of flaw in … Read More
Two arms and a head guy
There has of late been much content produced on Popper’s Inversion which is close enough to the Leaving Truth philosophy to either be confused with it or seen as a counter-argument. I am referring here to the Doug Freyburger’s first three articles of Oct 2014, and his contributions to the long discussion of the article Religious Belief and the Scientific … Read More
Apples to Apples
I am taking care of my granddaughter this week while my daughter is taking some time off. The little one is just starting to associate sounds with objects. The more pleasing an object is to her, the more likely it is to have a name other than “bah”. “Apple” is one of those objects with its own name, being called … Read More
Welcome from Keith Sewell
Greetings! For up-front honesty, and time efficiency: This is a strongly atheistic blog-site. It’s for people who are already fairly sure that organized religion’s influence is, on balance, negative; and so would like to reduce it. I think that my book length essay collection, Leaving Truth contains some powerful new ideas for that. But more on them and the book can be found under … Read More