To the shills for Qatar who cite Al Jazeera, who cite Hamas propaganda fed to the mainstream lefty media of the west disseminating lies to advance their nefarious cause, who grasp for straws to feed their blood lust against Jews, eagerly and with gratification finding confirmation in the hoped for but nonexistent genocide of…[Read more]

Reg,

@Enco, Thanks, I blame cuts to the editing dept for not replying to emails asking them to explain what they actually do!! Typo has been corrected.

You might want to do your own spell-checking instead of farming it out. It would be a better loving example to people you want to teach Critical Thinking.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Your initial belief (before evidence) + new evidence = updated belief.

That sounds very reasonable.

Unseen wrote:
It is not single axioms that strike me as obvious, it is a system in which consequences and premises give one another mutual support.” — Wittgenstein, On Certainty, sec. 141-42

That’s good too.  If ther…[Read more]

“When we first begin to believe anything, what we believe is not a single proposition, it is a whole system of propositions. (Light dawns gradually over the whole.) / It is not single axioms that strike me as obvious, it is a system in which consequences and premises give one another mutual support.” — Wittgenstein, On Certainty, sec. 141-42