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SKEPTICALLY UNCERTAIN ABOUT THE CERTAINTY OF DOUBT

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Dave

Certain quotations from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ”On Certainty” seem to imply that we can doubt everything: each statement that might be true still has some aspects that might make it possible to doubt it. Certainly, the issue of Goldman-Sachs and our … Continue reading →

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Art of Cognitive Incoherence

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Dave

”An experience, in short, that violates all logic and expectation. The philosopher Soren Kierkegaard wrote that such anomalies produced a profound ‘sensation of the absurd,’ and he wasn’t the only one who took them seriously. Freud, in an essay called “The … Continue reading →