Discrimination, Government, Minorities
Walter E Williams has your lecture this week. If leftist rhetoric bothers you, this one will deconstruct it to its inevitable end…
The Correlation of Correlation & Causation
Recursive functions have been all over SNV this week! You have heard the cliche “correlation is not causation,” and it is true, even if overused. But WHY is it true? Don’t just give me examples, give me the foundation of the theory! Well, the problem is that the philosophy of when you can infer with…
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Does This Work?: Choosing Your Own Meaning
Does this logic hold?: This is a cross post from a comment I made in another post. While writing it I realized how wrong the statement “Life is meaningless so you have to choose your own meaning” really is. I want to explain it to you and I am curious if you can find a…
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We Need Logic, Stat!
Studies can be designed to prove almost anything. Even if the result of a study is impossible given the finite nature of reality and the limits of logic (see “minimum wage increases cause growth in employment” studies), many will believe its results without reference to methodology, interpretation, statistical analysis, et cetera. A study can be…
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An Analogy of the God
The most unknowing responses to the cosmological argument for the existence of God (flying spaghetti monsters, Zeus, and Thor; “who created God?”) are probably just as likely to stem from theistic misinterpretations of what God is than from actual ignorance of the argument being made – irritating as they may be. Feser knocks it out…
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