I found Sean Carroll’s article on downward causation interesting. One of the things I noticed is that he gives 3 possible definitions for ‘reductionism.’ The…
Category: Critical Rationalism
“Failure is not an option!” yells the hero in the movie. Except that it is. And, in fact, failure is desirable. In this episode, Cameo…
Having now made an attempt to define what a rational fallacy is and how it differs from a logical fallacy (though sometimes a fallacy can…
Popper did not believe we could explain the success of our attempt to explain things. He said: …no theory of knowledge should attempt to explain…
A couple of years ago I discovered a movie called A Silent Voice which is the single most realistic portrayal of childhood bullying I’ve ever…
I previously posted about Deutsch’s argument to Eli Tyre about why induction can’t be the basis for conjecture. And I agreed with that argument. But,…
Popper wrote about the need to discover regularities: It was first in animals and children, but later also in adults, that I observered the immensely…
Deutsch gives a great concise answer to the question of why conjectures are not rooted in induction. (See video here.) The Setup: Eli Tyre starts…
In this episode, we review Alpha Go: The Movie. This is an amazing documentary worth watching before we spoil it for you in this review.…
In the legal system, we have two standards of evidence. For criminal cases, a person is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. In…