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Thanks, t. Its interesting you should mention Kuhn's book. In my last semester at Cal State Long Beach, Fall 1969, I took a 400-level class in Philosophy of Science and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was the prime textbook. One of my takeaways from Kuhn's discussion was the insight that mos...

The strangest thing I ever encountered in this area was a man I worked with years ago, let's call him Joe Baker, who got married to a woman he fell in love with, lets call her Sally Jones. In the interest of gender equality, he/they decided to adopt a hyphenated name. Not Baker-Jones, as is conventi...

I believe Tolstoy's message was: Anna, her husband and Vronsky belonged to a strata of Russian society that was morally bankrupt, headed for a fall. In other words, they deserved what they got. Contrast them to the aristocrat who eventually married Kitty - a romantic who loved the land and respected...

I remember my Metaphysics professor making a big point of the distinction between lived and depicted experiences. As humans developed more powerful communications media in the last 100 years, these depicted experiences have grown in their complexity and popularity. Virtual reality is nothing more th...

My thoughts exactly. Watching TV makes you sterile. Every time I do it, I feel dirty, used. Correct action takes courage, you must destroy your TV. Call your local waste management agency and find out about disposal. - CW

My position is, lifeforms are inherently different from inorganic matter and so complex they could not have begun spontaneously. It seems logical that the original lifeforms on Earth came from outer space, probably embedded in a comet that struck the planet after it cooled to the point where simple ...