Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Metaphysics 101: Basic Reality
What we are dealing with in this essay is a Christian theory of being, which is simply another way of designating one’s theory of reality, called more technically, metaphysics. This is opposed to one’s theory of knowledge which is one’s epistemology. We will be taking the stance that one’s epistemology and one’s metaphysic mutually influence…
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Philosophy 101: A Brief Outline
I probably should have posted this yesterday, but for this glorious spring break week, I am makeshifting my fiance’s Panera as an office space and they unfortunately shut off the Wi-Fi during the lunch rush (which is in 20mins). Due to time constraints (and the need for a bit more research) I’m just going to…
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So here’s the story…Part VI
It came to my attention after posting the last segment of the story that, as anticipated, my chronology was a bit off. As Ali best remembers it, I came up to Lynchburg on what was probably a Thursday afternoon/evening, and the event of our first hanging out would have been Friday night and not Monday…
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So here’s the story…Part V
It might be helpful in light of the rest of this story to consider everything up to this point as more or less a preface, a prolegomena if you will. If you don’t know what a prolegomena is, well, that’s why I gave you preface first. I generally try to eschew obfuscation, but sometimes it…
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Philosophy 101: Transcendental Arguments
As promised, in this essay we’ll need to deal with what we more or less did the last time around. That is, we need to address our more or less assuming the Christian worldview. This necessarily makes this and probably the next essay a bit more apologetical. In a broad sense, this whole blog series…
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So here’s the story…Part IV
Alright, so where were we? Oh that’s right, not very close to actually explaining how the present state of affairs came into being. That’s ok though, the story continues to unfold and there is no hurry to get it all into print right away. It’s kinda hard to forget you know? Although details tend to…
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Philosophy 101: Clarifying terms
Upon doing my homework (for this blog of course, not for school), it came to my attention that there are several things that must be addressed before really moving into crafting a worldview, or a Christian philosophy of life. For starters, we have to unpack a little further the first 2 bullet points from the…
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So here’s the story…Part III
Well anyway, I hope you don’t mind but this is where the story gets kinda boring. I mean not really boring, but just you know…not as exciting as some of the other parts will prove to be. When we left our future couple, Ali had moved back to Florida and Nate was buried somewhere under…
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Philosophy 101
Part of me would love to do all the research on the front end and then systematically publish the results here in blog form. Unfortunately, I would probably never start writing if that were the case. So let’s just start by framing the question and discussing possible directions. We’ll move from the vauge to the…
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Change: Closing Thoughts and Transition
In some ways, this may seem like an abrupt left turn in terms of blog content. However, I’m not sure how much can really be addressed in terms of how people change. All that would be left is specific application, and apart from case studies, that is not particularly feasible. Too short excurses are in…
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