Saturday, February 26, 2011

Misconduct in Science and Research

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Recent news about procedural misconduct by scientists is easy to find.   However, searches of JSTOR uncovered zero articles about misconduct...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

What is Literacy?

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We can feel good about the fact that literacy in the United States is 99% -- until we realize that this puts the USA tied for 21st with 24 o...
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Another Example of Unlimited Constitutional Government

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Regardless of how stringent the constitution, the government always can be expanded.  Does the legislature have a right to establish its own...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

The Cure for a Failing Empire

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If you were a druid from 180 AD and had Merlin's insight, what could you tell the emperor Marcus Aurelius about the coming collapse of t...
Saturday, February 5, 2011

Counterfeiting and the Tragedy of the Commons

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It does not take much research to read far too much about the glut of counterfeit numismatic materials manufactured in China and sold on eBa...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

To Make Money

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In "Francisco's Money Speech" from Atlas Shrugged , Ayn Rand claimed that the phrase "to make money" was invented in...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Money as Speech and Peacemaking

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Athens c. 450 BCE “Francisco’s Money Speech” is a monologue from Atlas Shrugged .  If you do not know the soliloquy you can find it onli...
Monday, January 17, 2011

Unlimited Constitutional Government

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Begin with that ideal state limited by a constitution with strict language that is narrowly understood and big government is just a mat...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

THE FALLIBILITY OF FINGERPRINTING

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The easy truth is that fingerprints are not reliable. The deeper facts are necessarily more complicated.  Whether and to what extent fingerp...
Monday, January 10, 2011

More on Necessary Factual Truths

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Greg Browne writes: The big question is: How can we know the truth of universal generalizations (All S is P) about kinds (such as "A...
Friday, January 7, 2011

Gregory M Browne's Necessary Factual Truths

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This blog is named for Dr. Gregory M. Browne's work bridging metaphysics and epistemology.  In the Introduction to Necessary Factual Tru...