Current technology is driven by open-source software, most of which is freely accessible on platforms such as github.com. If hoarding knowledge were a...
A machine can know something, because it can store any knowledge declaration P => Q along with a proof R in first-order logic that proves that Q neces...
Imagine a morality with three basic rules B={R1, R2, R3}. Imagine that person X uses a statement P in first-order logic that R4 necessarily follows fr...
The justification for "the mole is cancerous", is never "who" says it, but "how" he says it: justified or not. If the justification for that claim fal...
Every practitioner of a knowledge discipline faces the threat posed by the Church-Turing thesis: "A problem belongs to the knowledge domain of beliefs...
No, there are no "expert" doctors. There are only justified diagnoses. It does not matter who came up with a diagnose. All that matters, is that it is...
There are no experts. There are only justified knowledge claims. Seriously, if it matters who says it, then what he says, cannot possibly matter. The ...
No, my beef is with the academia in general, and their obnoxious mentality. A very typical example of what is totally wrong with their mentality, is t...
That is indeed Gödel's original proof, which certainly has its merits, but in the meanwhile various alternatives have emerged, some of which can possi...
The academia are certainly not an absolute reference with regards to knowledge. On the contrary, their detestable practices concerning locking up publ...
Totally agreed. In my experience, countries that are NOT democracies perform much better in that respect. No matter what other stupid laws they usuall...
When does a {hospital} work properly? When we get the guarantee that the ignorant idiots of the populace won't have a say whatsoever in making {medica...
In a so-called democracy, the option exists to invent new laws that will make the survival of society itself, impossible. You would think that they wo...
Pretty much all other options could survive on the long run. So-called democracy can clearly not, as it brings down fertility rates to zero, and elimi...
In "Politics and the English language", George Orwell points out that the term "democracy" resists being given a definition. Therefore, it is a member...
In fact, I agree to an important extent with that. The foundations of mathematics are to some extent considered to be impredicative (circular). Howeve...
Every phrase in Wikipedia is attributed or attributable. That is much more than you can say of the average academic textbook, which is just one more w...
There is nothing wrong with downstream applications, even the most simple ones, but none of that is part of the knowledge discipline of mathematics, w...
The expression "1" does not appear in set theory or in the lambda calculus (axiomatization of anonymous functions). You can optionally produce the con...
As soon as you say "observations", i.e. things that you see in the real, physical world, then it is no longer mathematics. In that case, you are doing...
No, I disagree because most of mathematics is not about codified quantity or relations between quantity. Only number theory to some extent is. Further...
The analogy with random numbers is exactly that: observer dependence. The randomness of numbers depends on the observer. They are not (necessarily) in...
These are empirical patterns in which people detect some form of consistency. Mathematics is only about that consistency, and nothing else. It is not ...
Well, we can discuss Matrix-like philosophies, but they are not knowledge, because they are about the real, physical world but not justified from anyt...
Mathematics has nothing to do with real-world experience. It is completely divorced from it. It is about consistency in abstract language-only express...
I agree for epistemology, even though it still needs access to the body of existing knowledge in order to detect patterns in it; which Immanuel Kant m...
There is no knowledge possible without an epistemic knowledge-justification method; two of which, in the context of the real, physical world, are scie...
Kant never tested anything experimentally. Therefore, his views cannot be classified as physics in its modern understanding, which already prevailed i...
No matter how much I like Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" for its ability to detect interesting epistemic patterns in the world of knowledge, I find ...
I am certainly a fan of Popper's epistemic result, and I have completely adopted his seminal publication, "Science as falsification". That does not me...
The resurrection of the dead originates from: Daniel 12:2. Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others ...
if ( time = tomorrow, 5h30 ) then { the sun will rise } So: time = tomorrow, 5h30 \Rightarrow the sun will rise It is still the modus ponens. If you w...
Medical experts have more knowledge about cause-and-effect situations in the human body than people without that training, but their knowledge is stil...
Knowledge as a justified (true) belief (JtB), is a modus-ponens arrow: justification \Rightarrow knowledge claim The justification must contain all el...
Unfortunately, you cannot prove anything about the real, physical world, simply, because its construction logic is unknown. The term "proving" means t...
Agreed. The positional notation always expresses rationals, and not even all of them, such as 1/3 or so. Furthermore, if the digit stream for a number...
Yes, it is the law that makes you free. The idea is very old, though: James 2:12. So whatever you say or whatever you do, remember that you will be ju...
The ultimate premisses are not explained on grounds of other premisses. There is no other way to do it than to have ultimate premisses. As Aristotle w...
If moral philosophy made sense, it would name its basic assumptions. If it does not, then it is just an exercise in infinite regress. Naming basic ass...
The Riemann hypothesis is a question that arises under the assumptions of number theory (Dedekind-Peano), or a theory that encompasses it, such as set...
What is there to refute in his Powerpoint presentation? It is obviously not even wrong. It is simply not possible to make that kind of far-reaching cl...
This view is based on a complete misunderstanding of rationality. You see, reason consists of arrows of the type p => q. You can obviously chain them....
You would first need an agreeable and documented starting point for morality. In the offshoots of second-temple judaism that support axiomatic theolog...
Having sexual relations with someone is forbidden if the ruling authority would object to that. In the end, that is all that matters, because who else...
Theology, in the religions in which it exists, is axiomatic (reductionist) derivation of propositions from scripture. It is about reasoning from the b...
If X is a human endeavour, you will often end up with ontologyOf(X), epistemologyOf(X) and moralityOf(X), which are pillars of the philosophyOf(X). It...
Where indoctrination goes up, net assets go down, and even get wiped out by student loans. You can see these idiots paying inordinate amounts of money...
There is a good historical example for the Einstein quote. When Algoritmi wrote his book in the 9th century, the "Liber Algebrae", he needed hundreds ...
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