No, this isn’t a New Age affirmation. It isn’t a derisive denouncement of low likelihood. It’s the Dawdlers giving their takes on modal logic! Herein are considered types of possibility, and how responsible epistemology might interface with metaphysical musings. Who has the arguments to back up absolute impossibility claims? If Read more…
In art, genius is forgiven if it isn’t consistent. Hell, it’s probably revered more if it’s inconsistent. It’s fluid. Not so in philosophy. Consistency is king. Without it one becomes lost and strays from the path. In this episode the Dawdlers (well, Harland, mostly) try their best to explain why Read more…
Hello World. It’s us Dawds, trying out yet another new thing. We thought we’d discuss a kinda off-the-cuff, shootin’-from-the-hip type format in addition to the usual 2+ hours we do. It’s more of a relaxed stroll with intermittent skipping as opposed to the marathons we’ve been doing so far. This Read more…
There are these people in workplaces who have a talent for completing assigned tasks well. Their results are basically always excellent and up to the specifications and requirements for getting the job “done right”. Worker bees, we call them. And they are essential for the consistent and routine operation of Read more…
There are questions to which I am willing to provide answers with a relatively high degree of confidence. Then there are questions that I sorta have an opinion about– questions that I have an automatic reflex-like reaction in response to but that upon further consideration I would not profess a Read more…
“If you don’t mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there. It’s like being a politician in opposition; that’s where you can be most sincere. But, of course, you sometimes look at people taking lead parts and think they’ve got all the gravy.” -Colin Firth Unremitting travelers Read more…
Foundationalists are united in their conviction that there must be a kind of justification that does not depend on the having of other justified beliefs. They nevertheless disagree radically among themselves as to how to understand noninferential justification. ~SEP entry on Foundationalism Notice the isomorphism between epistemic foundationalism and ontological Read more…
Say Bob was talking to Alice and asked “Do you know what ‘virtue signaling’ means?”, and that Alice replied in the negative. Say Bob attempted to define it by uttering this sentence: “Virtue signaling is a term for indications, to relevant others, of the sender’s excellence on some metric believed Read more…