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Introduction to the theory of induction: about adduction - February 18, 2010 1:11 AM
Seventh post in the ongoing series on important innovations in logic theory to be found in my works. First, let me apologize to readers for not posting new blogs more often,...
So-called material implication cannot adequately do the job of ‘de re’ conditionals - January 21, 2010 4:07 AM
Sixth post in the ongoing series on important innovations in logic theory to be found in my works. The present post is intended as a continuation of the preceding one...
Distinguishing the modes of conditioning - January 5, 2010 1:07 AM
Fifth post in the ongoing series on important innovations in logic theory to be found in my works. ZBX3CBZ42FGC One of the most striking demonstrations of the importance...
Logic depends for its full development on identifying the various categories and types of modality - December 10, 2009 1:19 AM
Fourth post in the ongoing series on important innovations in logic theory to be found in my...
A systematic listing and validation of modal syllogisms - November 29, 2009 3:14 AM
Third post in the ongoing series on important innovations in logic theory to be found in my works. There is so much to say, I hardly know where to start. Perhaps I had best...
Evolving from the traditional static formal deductive logic to a more dynamic treatment of classification - November 15, 2009 2:08 AM
Second post in the series on important innovations in logic theory to be found in my...
The conclusion of a modal syllogism does not always just follow the modality of the weakest premise - November 9, 2009 1:35 AM
In my first ten blog posts, I have endeavored to give readers a quick cross-section of my philosophy, ranging over a variety of subjects. In the present posting, and the...
Two basic meditations: breath awareness and thought awareness - October 12, 2009 2:08 AM
Extract from MORE MEDITATIONS, CHAPTER 2. http://www.thelogician.net/6_reflect/6_Book_4/6d_chapter_02.htmTo meditate is to make a sustained effort to increase one’s...
Mental health can be equated mainly to self-knowledge, self-control and self-value - October 5, 2009 3:50 AM
Extract from MORE MEDITATIONS, CHAPTER 6. http://www.thelogician.net/6_reflect/6_Book_4/6d_chapter_06.htm Just as our physical health is defined with reference to the...
The concepts of life, consciousness and volition are central to any ethical claim or system - September 28, 2009 9:41 PM
Extract from VOLITION AND ALLIED CAUSAL CONCEPTS, CHAPTER 17.http://www.thelogician.net/4b_volition/4b_chapter_17.htmThe term ‘deontology’ may be taken to refer to the...
Human will is free and yet capable of being influenced - that is, conditioned through consciousness - September 21, 2009 12:35 AM
Extract from VOLITION AND ALLIED CAUSAL CONCEPTS, CHAPTER 5.http://www.thelogician.net/4b_volition/4b_chapter_05.htmAn important and complex concept in causal logic, and...
Clarifying the relation between the concepts of necessary causation, inertial causation and volition - September 11, 2009 3:18 AM
Extract from VOLITION AND ALLIED CAUSAL CONCEPTS, CHAPTER 2. http://www.thelogician.net/4b_volition/4b_chapter_02.htm   In natural causality or determinism, we must...
Two important criticisms of the Buddhist notion of non-self - August 30, 2009 8:03 AM
Extract from BUDDHIST ILOGIC, CHAPTER 11. http://www.thelogician.net/3b_buddhist_illogic/3b_chapter_11.htm I think it is very important to realize that all Buddhist accounts...
We cannot experience something negative without first thinking about the corresponding positive - August 23, 2009 12:53 PM
Extract from: RUMINATIONS, CHAPTER 9. http://www.thelogician.net/5b_ruminate/5b_chapter_09.htm Negation is a pillar of both deductive and inductive logic, and requires careful...
The principle of induction is the fourth law of thought - August 16, 2009 9:05 AM
Extract from: HUME'S PROBLEMS WITH INDUCTION, CHAPTER 2.http://www.thelogician.net/6_reflect/6_Book_1/6a_chapter_02.htmThere is an all-important principle of logic and more...
Experience is initially unitary and only in a second phase is it rationally made to explode into seeming multiplicity - August 9, 2009 10:30 AM
Extract from: A SHORT CRITIQUE OF KANT’S UNREASON, CHAPTER 4. http://www.thelogician.net/6_reflect/6_Book_2/6b_chapter_04.htm   The phenomenological truth of human...
The only coherent theory is that what we perceive is the world itself. - August 4, 2009 7:34 AM
Extract from: HUME'S PROBLEMS WITH INDUCTION, CHAPTER 4.http://www.thelogician.net/6_reflect/6_Book_1/6a_chapter_04.htmThe root of Hume’s problem with induction is perhaps his...