Category: Φιλοσοφία της Επιστήμης
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Πως να κερδίσεις εύκολα έναν άθεο σε μια συζήτηση…
Πως να νικήσεις εύκολα έναν άθεο σε μια συζήτηση…Είναι δύσκολο;Βασικά όχι! Και θα σας δείξω πως μπορείτε να το επιτύχετε! Πριν τη συζήτηση Καταρχάς θέσε μία δομή στη συζήτηση! Ο άθεος συνήθως θα ξεκινήσει τη συζήτηση με μια ολομέτωπη επίθεση αναφέροντας πολλαπλά θέματα. Προσπάθησε να εξηγήσεις πως πρέπει να υπάρχει μια δομή σε μια πολιτισμένη…
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Guidelines, scientific dogmatism, biased thinking…
The BBC has to adopt “clear editorial guidelines” for its reporting on the issue of climate change, MPs have said. The Science and Technology Committee said the organisation played a “central” role in informing the public. But some editors were “poor” at determining viewers’ and listeners’ level of expertise and sometimes pitted lobbyists against “top…
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deCODE common logic… NOT!
deCODE Genetics, a company known for mining the DNA of Iceland’s population to find links between genes and diseases, has hit a snag. As Science reports in this week’s print issue, a national agency that oversees data privacy in Iceland has rejected a request from deCODE to allow it to apply computational methods to the…
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Prove science with… Faith?
How can one believe science has no limits? By the interpretation of Gödel’s theorem, no section of human knowledge (e.g. arithmetic) can prove its consistency by… it self. But this implies that it may be proved by means of another section of human thought. So maybe the consistency of Science can be proved in… an un-scientific…
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Future affecting the past 2: The creepy coincidence of Richard Parker(s)…
In Edgar Allan Poe’s only novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, published in 1838, Richard Parker is a mutinous sailor on the whaling ship Grampus. After the ship capsizes in a storm, he and three other survivors manage to catch a tortoise to eat while stranded on the sea. However after some days they have…
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