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Cooperative Disagreement

This post is in many ways a response to Being Right and Knowing It on Rysade’s Blog “Iteration”. In other ways it is an attempt to remind myself of my ideals in the wake of failing them a couple nights ago when debating genetic engineering. When some Jehovah’s Witnesses come to my door and ask [...]

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Beyond Popper

I was having a conversation with a friend of mine recently about the nature of knowledge. As with just about any discussion of epistemology with me, much of the conversation was about critical rationalism. In this discussion, I came to realize something. One of the key foundations of critical rationalism is the idea that no [...]

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