Words and Meanings

All modern sciences began as merely natural philosophy and gradually matured into the powerful, reliable, and vibrant disciplines that we have today.  I do want to identify the primary epistemic [...]

Some disciplines and systems of methods that have a wide number of followers and practitioners might seem to be scientific, but they are actually pseudoscientific.  This includes any belief [...]

Today I want to offer some thoughts on the relation between empirical knowledge and metaphysical understanding.  This drives off last week’s post on the analytic/synthetic distinction.  [...]

Today I want to offer some thoughts on the analytic/synthetic distinction.  I see this as one of the foundational epistemic dimensions, which means that every principled way of knowing or [...]

This post is a continuation of an earlier one “Intersubjectivity as Mutually Understood Subjectivity“. If the intersubjective mode of understanding includes experiences that multiple [...]

Everything a person believes starts within their own mind as perceptions, emotions, and other experiences that are operated on through the innate capabilities of the brain.  It is easy enough to [...]