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Axiology

https://zerocontradictions.net/epistemology/axiology

theory that makes no predictions. There is no uniquely rational way to define value philosophically. “What is the right theory of value?” is a normative question: a qu
Axiology studies the nature, properties, rationality, judgment, and ranking of values. Axiology has implications for ethics, game theory, and political philosophy.

Personal genomics

https://www.reproductive-revolution.com/archive/personal-genomics.html

ave), and ones whose predictions are flat-out wrong (like a high risk of baldness). For all the narcissistic pleasure that comes from poring over clues to my inner makeup, I soon r

T E X T F I L E S

http://textfiles.com/humor/

poll2res.hum 7035 Predictions for 2007 polly.txt 4087 The Story of Impure Mathematics polly_.new 3446 Impure Mathematics, the Story of Polly Nomial polyglot.c 7656 The HELLO, POLY

A review of the book The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker

https://www.euvolution.com/neoeugenics/human_modern_denial.htm

will generate correct predictions about the world. And making correct predictions in pursuit of a goal is a pretty good definition of 'intelligence.'"  And I would add t
Pinker makes a strong case for evolutionary psychology but then goes on to deny genetic racial differences--or almost so. Eugenics

Publications - John Smart (futurist)

https://www.accelerationwatch.com/pub.html

of important issues, predictions, and scenarios in accelerating technological change. I expect to update it eventually. In the meantime, some may find it useful. Each track may be

Uncle Dale's Old Mormon Articles: Saints' Herald 1872-81

http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/sain1872.htm

of the most wonderful predictions of his life. He advanced to the statements made by this George C. Cookman, declaring them to be willfully and wickedly false, and that if he, Coo

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/paul-feyerabend-against-method.muse

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/paul-feyerabend-against-method.muse

volumes of planes; the predictions of the older quantum theory and of early forms of the quantum theory of radiation - and so on) evidently proceed according to different rules. T

Elias Boudinot's 1816 book

http://olivercowdery.com/texts/boud1816.htm

of the whole plan and predictions of the sacred record, as powerfully to affect all the nations of the earth, and bring them to the acknowledgment of the true God, even our Lord J

Sam Low's Library - Sailing & Navigation

http://www.samlow.com/sail-nav/awakening.html

Tiki. Despite many dire predictions that the simple raft would surely be smashed to pieces in the open ocean, Heyerdahl and his crew eventually managed to make landfall in the Tua

Fourmilog: None Dare Call It Reason

https://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/

and cosmology, and make predictions which accurately describe our observations, but when we try to understand what is really going on or why it works that way, it often seems puzz

WSM: One Substance (Space) & One Law explains causal connection, Metaphysics: deduces Quantum Physics, Einstein Relativity, Cosmology</tit

https://www.spaceandmotion.com/

satisfying. Its predictions of mature galaxies and dark flow align with recent observations from the JWST, and its metaphysical foundation resolves longstanding philosophical prob
On Truth and Reality: One Substance (Vibrating Space) - One Law (Wave Energy determines Velocity): Uniting Metaphysics, Philosophy, Physics with WSM, the SSW

Computation isn't Consciousness: The Chinese Room Experiment

https://lukesmith.neocities.org/vids/chinese_room

it and use it to make predictions what is this kind of theory (conciousness being a non-material mystical goo) good for exactly? I think this sort of argument is first choosing wh


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