Tag: Bertrand Russell

• God-damned?

  Sometimes there are no easy ways to cross a swamp and many of us have chosen to live in areas so removed we cannot even see the marsh; do not understand that it may be difficult for others to reach us; do not care that they may not want to. I have seldom privileged beliefs […]

  gozzter

  June 22, 2022

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  absolute truths, Aeon.co, Bertrand Russell, children, ethics, Florida State University, Justified true belief, Michael Ruse, questions, relative truths, religion, religious beliefs, Richard Dawkins, teaching religion, teapot analogy

• I had as lief have been myself alone

  Just because something is missing, does that mean it should be there -or would be there under normal circumstances? Suppose someone does not realize it’s missing and has no thoughts about it. Under those circumstances, is it really missing -or does that description apply only when it’s noticed? Is the evidence of absence the same […]

  gozzter

  June 26, 2019

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  Aeon, Bertrand Russell, choice, Fay Bound Alberti, Loneliness, lonely, oneliness, solitude, the Teapot analogy, Wikipedia