Archive for September, 2007
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
11:41 pm
There should be a law against Pedestrians driving cars.
Lewis on Homer
Monday, September 24th, 20078:48 pm
The general result of this is that Homer’s poetry is, in an unusual degree, believable. There is no use in disputing whether any episode could really have happened. We have seen it happen — and there seemed to be no poet mediating between us and the event. A girl walks on the shore and an […]
Does Infralapsarianism lead to Supralapsarianism?
Sunday, September 23rd, 20072:59 pm
Within Calvinism there are two main views concerning the logical order of God’s decrees. All Calvinists, obviously, believe in Unconditional Election, meaning that God’s election of some to salvation is not based on any merit or action of fallen man. There is, however, some debate as to whether election is conditional on the fall of […]
The Resurrection of the Socratic Club
Friday, September 21st, 20074:52 pm
We’ve started a Socratic Club.
An argument against the possibility of A.I.
Thursday, September 20th, 20073:18 pm
1. Intelligence requires (at least) the ability to reason.
2. A train of reasoning is impossible unless each step in the reasoning train is connected in a “Ground-Consequent” relation and the end of that reasoning train is reached because it is connected in a Ground-Consequent relation.
3. If a train of reasoning can be explained entirely in […]