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		<title>Noam Chomsky on OBL Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 08:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chomsky has decided to weigh in on Osama&#8217;s death offering a critique of the US and how this event took place (My Reaction To Osama bin Laden&#8217;s Death).  By and large I didn&#8217;t find too much of what he said to be very interesting. The one thing that caught my eye was where Noam indicts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prodictum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8499552&amp;post=188&amp;subd=prodictum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Validity of Descartes&#8217; First Meditation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 07:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have discussed Descartes&#8217; First Meditation here.  At this point I am proposing that whether or not the premises are true the argument form is invalid which means that the conclusion cannot be drawn from the premises given. 1. &#8220;Everything which I have thus far accepted as entirely true and assured has been acquired from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prodictum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8499552&amp;post=183&amp;subd=prodictum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Nozick: Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Intellectualism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This might be &#8220;broad brushing&#8221; or &#8220;generalizing&#8221; but I have always noticed a tendency among those &#8211; who would like to be identified as intellectuals - to be antagonistic toward capitalism.  My thought was that this must have been inculturated in them by their publicly funded academic upbringing.  However, that is as far as I ever got [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prodictum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8499552&amp;post=163&amp;subd=prodictum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Nagel: Anti-Theism of Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It isn&#8217;t just that I don&#8217;t believe in God and, naturally, hope that I&#8217;m right in my belief. It&#8217;s that I hope there is no God! I don&#8217;t want there to be a God; I don&#8217;t want the universe to be like that.&#8221; (The Last Word, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 130-131.) &#8220;Where is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prodictum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8499552&amp;post=159&amp;subd=prodictum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Book By Alvin Plantinga Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism,</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Analytic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#62;Plantinga has a new book out. &#160;From the publisher: A long-awaited major statement by pre-eminent analytic philosopher Alvin Plantinga,Where the Conflict Really Lies&#160;illuminates one of our biggest debates&#8211;the conflict between science and religion. Plantinga examines where this conflict is said to exist&#8211;looking at areas such as evolution, divine action in the world, and the scientific [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prodictum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8499552&amp;post=151&amp;subd=prodictum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Descartes&#8217; Mind Body Distinction, the Law of Indiscernibles, and Fight Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 07:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#62; Descarte, Leibniz, and Fight Club, what&#8217;s the significance? &#160;Well both Descartes and Leibniz come from a Modernist perspective that Tyler Durden&#8217;s nihilst tendencies causes him to abhor. &#160;Durden might fit into what Nietzsche conceived as Ubermensch&#160;but definately exhibits a form of neo-primitivist tendencies with a deep disdain for Modernity and its imposed structures upon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prodictum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8499552&amp;post=150&amp;subd=prodictum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Calvin on the Knowledge of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The previous post debate between Brunner and Barth raised the question &#8220;so what is Calvin&#8217;s teaching of the knowledge of God?&#8221;  As Calvin teaches it there are three fundamental aspects: the Sensus Divinitatis (or internal knowledge), External Knowledge of God, and Knowledge of God the Redeemer. Sensus Divinitatis Calvin does maintain the sensus divinitatis (SD) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prodictum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8499552&amp;post=139&amp;subd=prodictum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brunner vs. Barth: The Natural Knowledge of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 04:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; It was the 1930s when Swiss theologian Emil Brunner published his little book entitled Natur und Gnade (Nature and Grace).  In this treatise Brunner argues that in the theology of his &#8220;mentor&#8221; John Calvin (1) the imago Dei (image of God) in man formed the contact for the gospel and (2) God&#8217;s revelation in nature [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prodictum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8499552&amp;post=136&amp;subd=prodictum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Descartes’ Dream Argument</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; At this point I would like to return to Descartes dream argument from the previous post Descartes&#8217; First Meditation: FIRST Descarte has had dreams where he dreamt that he was awake. From this he concludes that when he’s dreaming he is not in a good epistemic position to say wether or not he is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prodictum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8499552&amp;post=132&amp;subd=prodictum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Descartes’ First Meditation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 06:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Descartes’ First Meditation Descartes begins his epistemological project by confronting the dilemma of false beliefs. We have all accepted beliefs and upon further investigation found them to be in error. In many cases a false belief will influence many other beliefs that one may have. For example you may have concluded A and from that established belief [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prodictum.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8499552&amp;post=131&amp;subd=prodictum&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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