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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Sunday, January 15, 2017

A Partial Index of Ideas within this Blog

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I write about whatever interests me. Below is a representative sample from the 454 previous posts. Language and Thought Art as Orde...

Saturday, March 14, 2015

Happy Pi Day of the Century

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Every March 14, we celebrate Pi Day. 3.14 is a pretty good approximation, better than 1 part in 1000. This year, being 2015, we acknowledg...

Saturday, February 28, 2015

The Unit Circle

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Truth to tell, I was disappointed to find a really nice write-up on Wikipedia. I was hoping that this was still arcane knowledge. As far a...

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Pi in the Sky over Austin

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Coming home at 6:30 PM, I looked up and saw a strange cloud formation... it resolved... 3 141592... Five sky-writing aircraft from AirSig...

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Happy Pi Day 2013

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That we celebrate Pi Day is curious. Granted, e = 2.71828… does not lend itself well to February 71 or the 27 th day of the 18 th month,...

Monday, November 5, 2012

Patterns in Pi

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Five "heads" in a row! The next toss is likely a "tails." The gambler's fallacy rests on the erroneous assmption tha...

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