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Representationalism

https://zerocontradictions.net/epistemology/representationalism

possible to have omniscience or infallible knowledge of reality, yet they still describe knowledge and truth as “corresponding” to reality. Knowledge and truth cannot
Truth and knowledge are representative models of reality that have predictive and explanatory power and are derived from the senses. The Platonic, Correspondence, Pragmatist, and S

https://www.wm7d.net/az_proj/az_html/vhf_qth_net.txt

https://www.wm7d.net/az_proj/az_html/vhf_qth_net.txt

(see the "good conscience" letter of Henderson 21 Oct 98). My request for the procedure to alter this policy or to find how it was set were met with stonewalling and eventually wi

The Epistemology of Religion (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2008 Edition)

https://plato.sydney.edu.au/archives/fall2008/entries/religion-epistemology/

by the standards of science or metaphysics (Phillips 1992). Stress on the autonomy thesis brings Wittgensteinian fideism close to the fideism of many religious conservatives, but

Pan-fried

https://panfried.neocities.org/

problem in computer science, or so the aphorism goes. So advocates of self-documenting code will say, yeah, obviously it does take a while to come up with good names. There’s no w

Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html

academics in computer science have gotten into the "structured programming" rut over the past several years. They claim that programs are more easily understood if the programmer

HOW YOUR PRIVACY IS INVADED

https://saveprivacy.neocities.org/how

some even sound like science fiction, however they're all proven to be real and true by the services that use them, people within the tech and privacy community, and even by gover

Alan Kay Did Not Invent Objects

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/alan-kay/

experience in computer science. For example, to evaluate <someobject>+4 means to present +4 as a message to the object. The fundamental difference is that the object is in c
People keep claiming that modern OOP languages aren’t “really OOP” because they don’t follow Alan Kay’s definition of “OOP”. I can see the

ERBzine 1153: Apache Novels by ERB: Influences

https://www.erbzine.com/mag11/1153.html

from the viewpoint of science and for their effect on the human imagination. Lummis traces mankind's relationship with the Grand Canyon from the earliest Indian settlements, evide

Prayers to a Broken Stone Issue 5

https://www.vamp.org/zines/egozine-5.html

to Be Free", to the science fiction inspired "Demolition Men" and "Jungles of Jupiter". This is album of incredible depth that never ceases to amaze me when I listen to it. For th

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Grad%20Admissions.htm

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/Grad%20Admissions.htm

chool of Computer Science (SCS).   Some of these inquiries are just form letters, apparently broadcast to hundreds of faculty members at many different schools; others show some fa

The Nature of Law

https://xenisa.github.io/the-nature-of-law.html

Objective Law as a Science of Human Action Legislation vs Discovery Related Reading Footnotes If ethics is a normative discipline that identifies and classifies certain sets of ac
Law is to be understood as a normative discipline which identifies certain actions as just or unjust. That is to say, law is a subset of ethics which identifies which party ought h

Pantheism and paganism: a symbiosis?

http://www.pantheism.net/paul/pagan.htm

pantheist outlook, of science as a whole, and of most people's normal ways of looking at the world. As Carl Sagan remarked: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
Pantheism, the deep theology ofpaganism


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