Tag: a posteriori argument

January 30, 2020, 9:49 AM

Peter Atkins is right that science can answer the biggest question we can ask. His problem is that he doesn’t like the answer science provides.

October 15, 2019, 4:18 AM

Imagine that you are an astronomer on a world with one moon. It is always night on your world, and the moon is the only body in the sky.

October 14, 2019, 4:56 AM

Every grain of sand is a link in an essential causal chain.

October 12, 2019, 5:01 AM

St. Thomas laid the intellectual groundwork for modern natural science — the absolute distinction between existence and essence.

October 4, 2019, 4:33 AM

Nature is like a stack of books, sessile, until moved.