November 30, 2007
What Does Bayesian Epistemology Have To Do With Probabilities?
The answer to the question in the title of this post may seem obvious (after all, isn't Bayesianism
all about probabilities?), but I think that the long discussion that followed
Lauren's post on van Fraassen's objection to Bayesianism from quantum mechanics shows that it isn't clear at all - or at least, that it wasn't clear to either of us as we were discussing the issue. I think that I now understand why. In this post, I'm going to give three answers to this question, which I will call The Primitivist Account (P), The Kripkean Possible Worlds Account (KPW), and the Lewisian Possible Worlds Account (LPW). This post will discuss...
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November 29, 2007
Quote of the Day: Schopenhauer on The History of Idealism
Now as, notwithstanding the transitory, isolated nature of our representations with respect to their immediate presence in our consciousness, the Subject nevertheless retains the representation of an all-comprehensive complex of reality, as described above, by means of the function of the Understanding; representations have, on the strength of this antithesis, been viewed, as something quite different when belonging to that complex than when considered with reference to their immediate presence in our consciousness ... This view of matter, which is the ordinary one, is known under the name Realism. On the appearance of modern philosophy, Idealism opposed itself to this...
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November 6, 2007
Official Xebra Launch Announcement
Today my employer,
Hx Technologies (which, of course, does not endorse this blog in any way, shape, or form),
officially announced the launch of
Xebra as a free open source project available on
SourceForge. Xebra is a complete platform for distributing and viewing DICOM medical images. It is written in pure Java and hence platform independent (well, at least it runs on any platform that can run Java 1.6 which unfortunately at present
does not include Mac OS X).
I have been working on the Xebra project on and off with one other developer for about a year and a half now...
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November 5, 2007
What's Wrong With Evangelicalism?
A lot actually. I don't want to start making a list (I might not stop). Regular readers may wonder why I still use the title so prominently, given my concern for history and tradition, and frequent attempts to distance myself from many elements of popular Evangelicalism. The answer is that I agree with the statements of faith of all the major Evangelical para-church groups, including their view of Scripture (my increasingly great respect for tradition has not altered that), and I continue to believe (perhaps more strongly than before) in "generous orthodoxy" - the view that the collection of doctrines...
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November 4, 2007
Patristic Carnival V
Patristic Carnival V is up at
The God Fearin' Forum, with a link to my post on
"Dionysius". It is a truly ecumenical venture, and I recommend that you all check it out.
Notable posts include: A
collection of quotes on the Eucharist at
The Byzantine Anglo-Catholic...
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November 2, 2007
Transubstantiation vs. Real Presence
The
God Fearin' Fiddler has a post up on
the historical significance of transubstantiation which has led to some interesting discussions. The principle problem with this post and the discussion that follows it, however, is that no one seems to understand the difference between transubstantiation and the Real Presence. Unfortunately, I'm not an expert on this either, but I do think I know enough to clear up some historical and metaphysical confusion. I am going to use two principal sources - session 13 of the Council of Trent, and the
relevant article from
the Catholic Encyclopedia - to explain the historical development and specific content of the doctrine of transubstantiation, and then attempt to show two things...
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Topic(s):
Aristotle
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Augustine
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Church Dogmatics
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George Berkeley
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Historical Thinkers
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Jesus of Nazareth
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Metaphysics
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Nicolas Malebranche
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Religion
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Plato
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Roman Catholic Church
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The Church
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The Eucharist
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Theology
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Thomas Aquinas
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