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- September/October 2000
- May 1, 2000
Perhaps the fog of time has managed to blur the reality of presidential elections past in my memory. Perhaps! But surely they couldn't have started as early as this current one. I think it began in earnest when President Clinton won his reelection-last century. And this opening year of the next century has been pretty
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- September/October 2000
- March 1, 2009
For Aristotle the propositional calculus of negation (if p, then not not-p) was an "ultimate belief . . . the starting point of all other axioms" (Metaphysics). It's the simplest proposition of formal logic: something cannot be true without its contrary, its negation, being false. For Aristotle this truth was too basic for demonstration. Negation
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- September/October 2000
- January 1, 1999
"Many traditional ethical beliefs are hard to justify, except on the assumption that there is a God or a World Spirit or at least an immanent cosmic purpose." –Bertrand Russell, Human Society in Ethics and Politics "I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child
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- September/October 2000
- March 1, 1998
"Christians are experiencing an unprecedented level of persecution around the world," said a sermon posted on the Internet by the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. It began with this example: "An elementary school girl in Denver, Colorado, is told by a teacher that she cannot bring her Bible to school
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- September/October 2000
- November 1, 1999
I read the "Goodbyes" in the May/June issue and felt the need to reply. Though I don't always agree with Liberty's opinions and articles, I do value the forum fo the exchange of ideas and diverse opinions. The greatest danger to our society is not diverse opinions, but rather the silencing of opinions that do
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- September/October 2000
- May 1, 1999
Though not exactly the Transfiguration, what I experienced from these words (by astrophysicist John Gribbin in Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality) was, nevertheless, almost epiphany: "In very round terms, the quantum world operates on a scale as much smaller than a sugar cube as a sugar cube is compared with the entire observable
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