Month: April 2013

• Wittgenstein contra Wahhab

  

  The basic tenet of Salafi/Wahhabi Muslims is that the word of God, i.e., the Quran, is not open to interpretation; the meaning is apparent from what is stated and woe unto those who indulge in the needless and dangerous talk of interpretation. On the other hand, those who hold views similar to those held in […]

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  April 27, 2013

  Modeling, Philosophy

  Bertrand Russell, Frege, Islamism, Language Game, Mutazilite, Philosophical Investigations, Picture Theory of Language, Quran, Salafi, Shia, Sunni, Tractatus, US Imperialism, Wahhab, Wahhabism, Wittgenstein

• William James and Free Will Peril

  

  The problem of free will, as classically defined, is that since each event is caused by a chain of antecedent events, nothing we do is of our own free will; if we do have free will, its hard to see how it could come about. Humankind has been at this problem for millennia. Instead of

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  April 3, 2013

  Philosophy of Science

  David Hales, Doodle Talk, Free Will, Tamas Vinko, William James