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Freedom and Structure in Human Life — Introduction

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Those who’ve read some of the writings on my blogs, Acts of Being and To See a World in a Grain of Sand, will likely realize I’ve been dealing with this project of creating a worldview on a somewhat disorganized basis, that is, I was writing as ideas came to me, sometimes addressing a few [...]

Categories: Christian in the universe of Einstein, Mind, Moral freedom, Narratives and truth, being, politics
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Narrative Plausibility as Approximation to Truth

Monday, September 28th, 2009

It seems to be hard to say in what sense a truth can exist apart from a context, even one so seemingly clear as “1 + 1 = 2″ or “Two contradictory statements cannot both be true.” Think of it in terms of works such as Whitehead and Russell’s “Principia Mathematica” which attempted to ground [...]

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