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Taken down, petrified, intimidated, neutered by the gun lobby, againOne could imagine this simple, justifiable claim in response to another American mass killing:Mar 24, 2021Mar 24, 2021
How Trump Can Still Get Another Term, LegallyRepublicans are indeed sending votes of Trump electors to Congress as I previously predicted, although it’s not apparent that they have…Dec 15, 2020Dec 15, 2020
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A Renewal of PhilosophyFor centuries, Western philosophers have grappled with profound questions. How do we know what we know? When are we justified in claiming…Jan 17, 2018Jan 17, 2018
Exploring Hume’s Distinction between Relations of Ideas and Matters of Fact: The Devil Is in the…BackgroundJan 17, 20181Jan 17, 20181
The Meaning of Psychological ClaimsAccording to the verification theory of meaning, a proposition is meaningful if and only if it has a set of possible verification…Jan 17, 2018Jan 17, 2018