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Knowledge Problems: May 2006
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Sunday, May 28, 2006. Where were you when I laid the earth's foundations,. Speak if you have understanding. Do you know who fixed its dimensions. Or who measured it with a line? Onto what were its bases sunk? Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. I just saw an amazingly sad and thought-provoking Anime yesterday called Haibane Renmei. It is 13 episodes and available on DVD. Naturally, the fondest wish of every Haiban...
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Knowledge Problems: April 2006
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Sunday, April 23, 2006. Is There a Crisis? A self-transcendent conception should ideally explain the following four things: (1) what the world is like, (2) what we are like, (3) why the world appears to beings like us in certain respects as it is and in certain respects as it isn't, (4) how beings like us can arrive at such a conception. Nagel, "The View from Nowhere"). Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'. We are not now that strength which in old days. One equal temper of heroic hearts,. Confused ...
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Knowledge Problems: March 2006
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Sunday, March 19, 2006. Seem to force one inexorably to communicate them to the next generation. They hijack one's rationality by playing to emotions of guilt and fear. Religious people who don't really. Believe any of the religious fairytales will still. Transmit religion to their children, either directly or through the schools in which they enroll them. This process is rarely ever disrupted by a host declaring "I will not transmit! Posted by Big-S Skeptic at Sunday, March 19, 2006. Because such a youn...
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Knowledge Problems: November 2006
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Monday, November 27, 2006. Unknowability of God In Jewish Mysticism, Part II. In this section we will examine a bit further what the classic sources have to say about the unknowable component of God, the En Sof. And then discuss what two recent kabbalistically-influenced scholars have written on the subject. Let us first just give the following quotes about En Sof. And see if we can gather from them anything substantial. Again from the Zohar, we have the following:. The depth of primordial being is calle...
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Knowledge Problems: How Is God Unknowable?
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Sunday, July 22, 2007. How Is God Unknowable? Mdash; a relationship that obtains between two entities, a knower and that which is to be known. This would appear so obvious as to not even need saying; after all, to what could a term such as "unknowable" refer if not to a state of knowledge. That would grant it a concrete and fixed meaning. And so I stress that "unknowability" is a state of knowledge. Not to belabor the point, but again, the approach here is not. For God to be knowable or unknowable in a c...
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Knowledge Problems: February 2007
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Monday, February 05, 2007. Unknowability of God In Jewish Rationalism II: Not Negative Theology. Note: I am trying to work some mathematical notation into these posts, gratuitously at first, but later with the purpose of formalizing ideas. If you use the Firefox browser, you should be able to see the math no problem, I hope. If you use Internet Explorer, you may need to download the free MathPlayer. Sum (k=1) n k = 1 2 cdots n=(n(n 1) /2`. OK On with the show. For every denial is intelligible only in ter...
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Knowledge Problems: Unknowability of God In Jewish Rationalism I
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Saturday, December 30, 2006. Unknowability of God In Jewish Rationalism I. The rationalist approach to interpretation of the Bible and religious tradition is based on the fundamental doctrine that Torah. Cannot be in conflict, and that an individual therefore need not adopt any position on matters religious which transgresses against reason. The basic spirit of Jewish rationalism — its motivation and method — is well captured, I think, by these two statements from Bachya and Ralbag:. Thus, there is shame.
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Knowledge Problems: December 2006
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Saturday, December 30, 2006. Unknowability of God In Jewish Rationalism I. The rationalist approach to interpretation of the Bible and religious tradition is based on the fundamental doctrine that Torah. Cannot be in conflict, and that an individual therefore need not adopt any position on matters religious which transgresses against reason. The basic spirit of Jewish rationalism — its motivation and method — is well captured, I think, by these two statements from Bachya and Ralbag:. Thus, there is shame.
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Knowledge Problems: The Fundamental Operation: Projection
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Monday, August 13, 2007. The Fundamental Operation: Projection. The crucial fact that must be observed is that the distinguishability of objects depends on which attributes are considered. Attributes `P 4` and `P 5`, we would observe (table below) that several other objects now also become indistinguishable, collapsing to the same point in feature space. In particular, we now find that we have the following sets of indistinguishable objects:. So there are only four discriminable kinds. Question though, i...
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Knowledge Problems: February 2006
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Friday, February 24, 2006. What To Do About Religion? Of those beliefs. And uncertainty is what this all comes down to. On the other hand, none of what anyone says seems to make the slightest difference. People seem to need religion, and what people need they will have. My biggest problem with religion is the unusual degree of certainty. Which would probably get a nod of agreement from the "schoolboy who said Faith is believing what you know ain't so. And so, to begin. I don't see how these arguments lea...
