Posts Tagged ‘philosophy’
Sock ‘em with Occam
by westwood Everyone needs a razor. Straight razors, electric razors, blue ones, pink ones. Sometimes you need a razor to shave your legs and your mustache (sometimes at the same time… no shame, boys and girls). However, as alluded to in this post a little while back, what we all really need is a razor [...]
Filed under: logic | 16 Comments
Tags: chris wallace, conservatism, Conservative, facial hair, faux news, fox news, jon stewart, liberal, liberalism, logic, morons, mustache, occam, occam's razor, ockham, ockhams' razor, philosophy, razor, william of ockham
What lies beneath (Wikipedia)
by westwood Do you know what lies beneath all things? What the ultimate root of everything is? The foundation of all fact and human knowledge? Wikipedia does, and it’s philosophy, in twenty clicks or less. Let me prove it to you. Go to Wikipedia. Click random article, or type in anything, like Ms. Frizzle. Now, [...]
Filed under: epistemology, understanding | 16 Comments
Tags: categories, comic, epistemology, foundation, lady gaga, magic school bus, ms. frizzle, onion, philosophy, references, sarah palin, shrek, snooki, understanding, wikipedia, xkcd
Getting Hitch’d
by westwood So I was reading an issue of Vanity Fair that happened to drop into my unsuspecting hands. Which led me to read another issue. Then another. And another. (no, I probably wouldn’t admit that I.R.L.) And you know what I realized? Out of all this greasy-fingered perusing into the addictive and intrusive details [...]
Filed under: existentialism | 9 Comments
Tags: atheism, cancer, chris hitchens, christopher hitchens, death, existentialism, hitch, logic, occam's razor, ockhams' razor, philosopher, philosophy, smoking, vanity fair
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