It seems to be the general opinion that absolute certainty is not something that we humans can hope for; that the best we can attain is a highly established near irrefutability. A doubt will always remain. I would like to start by discussing two different types of certainty. First is the general kind of […]
On The Scientific View of the World
Many people today have a “scientific” view of the world. This means that the world operates according to the laws of science, i.e., there are no mysterious forces that cannot be explained by some combination of physics, biology, psychology, economics etc. This can be expressed by this formulation of determinism: SD) The world is governed […]