Necessary Facts

Observations, reports, and discoveries that are true of necessity because they are perceivable and reasonable, empirical and logical, evidentiary and rational, synthetic and analytic. Truths are objective statements.

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Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Waves Passing in the Night

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In the history of astronomy, there was a conjecture in the 1760s that the planets orbit the sun in distances that can be described by a simp...

Sunday, May 17, 2026

This Island Earth

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Although some scholars find the roots of science fiction in ancient myths and fantastic poems such as A True Story by Lucian of Samosata, t...

Sunday, August 15, 2021

The Scientific Method

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Emergency management, physical security, and information security are three disciplines in which the process of continuous improvement is a ...

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Morality and the Philosophy of Science

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Science is consistent and integrated because reality is real. Contradictions do not exist. When we meet an empirical fact for which no expla...

Saturday, June 26, 2021

An Objective Philosophy of Science

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In framing her philosophy as capital-O Objectivism, Ayn Rand was following in the tradition of Enlightenment objectivism, which was never ex...

Sunday, May 30, 2021

Steven J. Dick’s Discovery and Classification in Astronomy

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Thomas Jefferson did not say that it “was easier to believe that two Yankee professors could lie than to admit that stones could fall from h...

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