Jon’s Quora Content
Since Quora has switched from blogs to ‘spaces’ I’ve been unable to update my permanent material stored there. In the interests of continuing to update it and making it readily available, I’ve decided to shift it here instead.
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‘Is it possible that…’ questions are usually daft. Here’s why.
Is it possible that… … gods exist? … there is an afterlife? …there are new forms of science we haven’t yet discovered? …Satan used a miracle to alter DNA? … etc, etc, etc… It’s possible, but it’s a vacuous possibility, in that there is no evidence whatsoever to support it. A vacuous possibility is a hypothesis which is… Read more
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Five Rules for Rationality
Some of the daft questions that come up on Quora result from simple ignorance. These are easily dealt with. But there are others which seem to be based on a fundamental failure to understand the world and how it works. The kind of ignorance this produces is self-inflicted, and often deeply ingrained into the questioner’s… Read more
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