Comments for Retread Resources Blog http://retreadresources.com/blog Brief Essays on Science, Philosophy and Reality Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:17:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Science And Its Place In Society or Scientist As Citizen by Dark Matter | Retread Resources Blog http://retreadresources.com/blog/?p=59&cpage=1#comment-3863 Dark Matter | Retread Resources Blog Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:17:43 +0000 http://retreadresources.com/blog/?p=59#comment-3863 [...] my essay Science And Its Place In Society or Scientist As Citizen, I mention the late F. Hoyle (Astronomer) as example of publicly admitting to have been supporting [...] [...] my essay Science And Its Place In Society or Scientist As Citizen, I mention the late F. Hoyle (Astronomer) as example of publicly admitting to have been supporting [...]

]]> Comment on Little Ice Age Kick Start by Universe’s Scale | Retread Resources Blog http://retreadresources.com/blog/?p=972&cpage=1#comment-3788 Universe’s Scale | Retread Resources Blog Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:15:55 +0000 http://retreadresources.com/blog/?p=972#comment-3788 [...] are not known for brevity.  I have written several other essays about scale and scaling nature: Little Ice Age Kick Start, Reexamining Time – Models Explained Three, Models Explained, Part One, Precautionary [...] [...] are not known for brevity.  I have written several other essays about scale and scaling nature: Little Ice Age Kick Start, Reexamining Time – Models Explained Three, Models Explained, Part One, Precautionary [...]

]]> Comment on Welcome by Dave in Canmore http://retreadresources.com/blog/?p=1&cpage=1#comment-3759 Dave in Canmore Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:18:12 +0000 http://retreadresources.com/blog/?p=1#comment-3759 Nice picture of Yamnuska! Nice picture of Yamnuska!

]]> Comment on More Thoughts On Communications by Ends, Means and Justification or Not | Retread Resources Blog http://retreadresources.com/blog/?p=769&cpage=1#comment-3736 Ends, Means and Justification or Not | Retread Resources Blog Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:48:12 +0000 http://retreadresources.com/blog/?p=769#comment-3736 [...] example of the ends being used to justify the means.  Something men do all the time.  In my essay More Thoughts On Communications , I examined Niccolo Macchiavelli’s famous statements on this and the questionable news resulting [...] [...] example of the ends being used to justify the means.  Something men do all the time.  In my essay More Thoughts On Communications , I examined Niccolo Macchiavelli’s famous statements on this and the questionable news resulting [...]

]]> Comment on Normal Eleven by Little Ice Age Kick Start | Retread Resources Blog http://retreadresources.com/blog/?p=646&cpage=1#comment-3706 Little Ice Age Kick Start | Retread Resources Blog Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:48:09 +0000 http://retreadresources.com/blog/?p=646#comment-3706 [...] time scale this is quick.  He is quite correct and subject we examined in several other essays Normal Eleven, Precision, Accuracy and Time and Scientific Method, Time and Scale, are good [...] [...] time scale this is quick.  He is quite correct and subject we examined in several other essays Normal Eleven, Precision, Accuracy and Time and Scientific Method, Time and Scale, are good [...]

]]> Comment on Truth, Consequences and Reality Revisited. by admin http://retreadresources.com/blog/?p=311&cpage=1#comment-3701 admin Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:58:34 +0000 http://retreadresources.com/blog/?p=311#comment-3701 I appreciate your taking the time to comment. Truth like some many topics looks like a simple and straight forward idea. Like all the others in philosophy it is anything but. I will follow up with your book as soon as time permits. In the interim all any of can do is recognize as Societies did, "I know this much for what it is worth," an anything more need yet to be learned. I appreciate your taking the time to comment. Truth like some many topics looks like a simple and straight forward idea. Like all the others in philosophy it is anything but. I will follow up with your book as soon as time permits. In the interim all any of can do is recognize as Societies did, “I know this much for what it is worth,” an anything more need yet to be learned.

]]> Comment on Truth, Consequences and Reality Revisited. by William Melvin Gardner http://retreadresources.com/blog/?p=311&cpage=1#comment-3698 William Melvin Gardner Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:40:31 +0000 http://retreadresources.com/blog/?p=311#comment-3698 I read your blog, “Truth, Consequences and Reality Revisited” (August 7, 2010), with interest and appreciation. As you note, I attempted in “Truth vs. Truths: An Enduring Dilemma for Skeptics” (Skeptic, 2010 Vol. 15, No. 4, p. 46) to differentiate four domains, or intellectual territories, of truth. I call these domains Rhetorica, Mystica, Logica, and Empirica. You related the four domains to your own categories for our search for truth—Logos or Mythos. I am sure that we agree that truth needs to be described in a way that assists our search of truth. In a new book, "Handling Truth: Navigating the Riptides of Rhetoric, Religion, Reason, and Research" (2012, see handlingtruth.com), I describe the four domains in great detail, giving their origins and describing the paths we take through the domains in our personal search for truth. I emphasize that it is critical not to abandon the search for truth in favor of information gathering. Thanks for you kind comments on “Truth vs. Truths,” and I hope you will also comment on "Handling Truth." William Melvin Gardner I read your blog, “Truth, Consequences and Reality Revisited” (August 7, 2010), with interest and appreciation.

As you note, I attempted in “Truth vs. Truths: An Enduring Dilemma for Skeptics” (Skeptic, 2010 Vol. 15, No. 4, p. 46) to differentiate four domains, or intellectual territories, of truth. I call these domains Rhetorica, Mystica, Logica, and Empirica. You related the four domains to your own categories for our search for truth—Logos or Mythos. I am sure that we agree that truth needs to be described in a way that assists our search of truth.

In a new book, “Handling Truth: Navigating the Riptides of Rhetoric, Religion, Reason, and Research” (2012, see handlingtruth.com), I describe the four domains in great detail, giving their origins and describing the paths we take through the domains in our personal search for truth. I emphasize that it is critical not to abandon the search for truth in favor of information gathering.

Thanks for you kind comments on “Truth vs. Truths,” and I hope you will also comment on “Handling Truth.”

William Melvin Gardner

]]> Comment on Speed of Light In Question, Again. by Top Science Story of 2011 | Retread Resources Blog http://retreadresources.com/blog/?p=880&cpage=1#comment-3662 Top Science Story of 2011 | Retread Resources Blog Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:17:15 +0000 http://retreadresources.com/blog/?p=880#comment-3662 [...] ultimately what this essay series is all about.  My first reaction to it is recorded in my essay Speed of Light In Question, Again.  Not being a physicist I did not comment on the technical side of the discussion.  I did comment [...] [...] ultimately what this essay series is all about.  My first reaction to it is recorded in my essay Speed of Light In Question, Again.  Not being a physicist I did not comment on the technical side of the discussion.  I did comment [...]

]]> Comment on Trust by Tyson F. Gautreaux http://retreadresources.com/blog/?page_id=21&cpage=1#comment-3650 Tyson F. Gautreaux Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:25:40 +0000 http://retreadresources.com/blog/?page_id=21#comment-3650 I ethical book obvious your blog on Digg and StumbleUpon. I dig reading your commentaries. I ethical book obvious your blog on Digg and StumbleUpon. I dig reading your commentaries.

]]> Comment on The Certanity of Uncertanity by Reexamining Time — Models Explained Three | Retread Resources Blog http://retreadresources.com/blog/?p=50&cpage=1#comment-3550 Reexamining Time — Models Explained Three | Retread Resources Blog Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:51:16 +0000 http://retreadresources.com/blog/?p=50#comment-3550 [...] fully understood or has large components of chaos, i.e. dynamism, are not reliable.  In my essay The Certainty of Uncertainty  and demonstrated by some of the work of Professor D. Koutsoyiannis, the models are simply not [...] [...] fully understood or has large components of chaos, i.e. dynamism, are not reliable.  In my essay The Certainty of Uncertainty  and demonstrated by some of the work of Professor D. Koutsoyiannis, the models are simply not [...]

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