Miscellany: On the incoherence of “follow-the-science” as a political slogan and other topics

On the incoherence of “follow-the-science” as a political slogan: The proposition that water = dihydrogen oxide may serve to illustrate the incoherence of the slogan above. We need only consider that an exhaustive physical analysis of water would yet remain totally silent about what water is. “What?” the objection will run, “isn’t that precisely what…

Miscellany: on love

To be in truth and to be in love: I wonder if we can learn something about how we should think of love from how we think of truth, and, conversely, how we should think of truth by how we think of love. To begin with the first thing: we understand that the truth is…

Miscellany: On the reason for belief, the perfection of design, freedom versus constraint, and other topics

On whether we believe things because we perceive them to be true or whether we believe things because we perceive that believing in them will confer social utility to us: As to whether the basis for mutual understanding has anything to do with genetics, I remain agnostic. Instead I am content to observe the obvious…