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Springer has released 233 mathematics books to the public domain: https://gist.github.com/bishboria/8326b17bbd652f34566a
December 29, 2015 at 04:58
Thanks for the comments. I'm headed in a different direction. (Descartes was just an example.) Identity can be the propositional tautology or ontologi...
December 14, 2015 at 02:47
(I've been tricked into North American spelling. Neighbour without the 'u'.) :) Your impressions of your neighbor is, or is derived from, your experie...
December 13, 2015 at 16:07
Consider the following dichotomy, a common categorization of experiences: Non-identity: Say I have a chat my neighbor. My experiences of my neighbor ?...
December 13, 2015 at 03:50
I agree, to an extent at least. It is, however, a philosophical problem, regardless of Descartes. That said, I think there are some other conundrums t...
December 10, 2015 at 18:32
I'd like a rabbitduck version of that. :) Cool. The Doctor has it all. (Speaking of.. We're still puzzled about the latest episode hereabouts.)
December 06, 2015 at 17:46
It is - being trained to think in some specific way. And, in absence of other training, it can engender narrow-mindedness, which emphasizes the gain f...
November 29, 2015 at 19:39
Right, sometimes they can be like a street-sign giving some directions, or maps giving some context. Other times they can be like refreshers, for some...
November 29, 2015 at 14:36
This class of arguments (prime/unmoved mover, first cause, kalam, cosmological, ...) seems the most commonly used for justifying such belief out there...
November 28, 2015 at 03:23
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November 27, 2015 at 03:26
Addendum So, what about reasoning then? Useless posturing? No, of course not. It's not to abandon reasoning, or throw hands in the air in futility, ra...
November 27, 2015 at 02:57
I've been "diagnosed" with a tendency to stress out. Be it worrying about deforestation, or how well my better half's speech/presentation is going, or...
November 25, 2015 at 14:56
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That many people suddenly moving around is bound to invite problems. At least it's not exclusively horror stories. Here are some tired, thirsty, worn ...
October 27, 2015 at 17:21
Hilarious :D Reminds me a bit of the Monty Python hunting party, except it's for real. Crazy Brits.
October 27, 2015 at 01:33
- That's my take too, well one of them. (As long as decluttering comments doesn't become too large a task in itself.) :)
October 27, 2015 at 01:19
Here's RationalWiki's article: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Woo
October 26, 2015 at 01:50
Invited Ying over as well.
October 26, 2015 at 01:20
Hmm.. At least the numbers have utf super/sub-script characters.. And some other characters.. Which..isn't quite the same.. superscript 0 ? superscrip...
October 25, 2015 at 05:10
Dang Nov 3rd, that's in a good week from now.
October 25, 2015 at 04:54
- Hear! Didn't Wittgenstein think philosophy is an activity? (Pardon if my memory failed me.) There's a "living" aspect to philosophy, more than readi...
October 25, 2015 at 04:44
- Love the New Years Eve Nietzsche. :) Hypatia is nifty too. Could go all weird like the attachment. I like the Hypatia better, though.
October 25, 2015 at 04:13
- I might have been long burnt out in your shoes. As good a time as any to move on. :) Thanks for all your good work/efforts.
October 25, 2015 at 03:54
Attaching a small snippet of html which has mathjax in it, did seem to work, albeit a slightly more cumbersome way to share formulae. Clicking the att...
October 20, 2015 at 23:04
Wonder if I can..
October 20, 2015 at 22:58
Probably a somewhat rare feature of online forums.
October 20, 2015 at 22:41
"Testing 1 2 3 testing" /uploads/files/jq/2f1uyrkhg2b6oytt.jpg
October 20, 2015 at 22:40
Important stuff! ;) ? ? 1/i² = ?²/6 i=1 The Basel problem
October 20, 2015 at 22:29