Certainty is a very loose term, perhaps one of those heterological terms which is so, because it is all encompassing about one’s knowledge about everything, which in itself is a contradiction. I wonder if all certainty is owing to one’s assumptions about a priori knowledge. As Voltaire said, although doubt is admittedly an unpleasant condition, [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Logic’
May 27, 2008
The Return of the Benevolent
I spent the better part of today watching and ruminating on a movie titled Adi Shankara. The movie is about the great seer who lived many centuries ago and propounded the Advaita philosophy, united various Hindu belief streams and brought a new religious revolution to the masses, laying the foundations of the Bhakti movement. The [...]
May 1, 2008
Intellectual Failures
At twenty three, I learnt all about logical fallacies, from my little room in Bangalore, dedicating time to learn argumentative logic each evening for a couple of weeks. The fascination with logic and logical fallacies always remained strong, since sifting out untruths is sometimes as important as gaining access to a truth.
At twenty five, I [...]
April 29, 2008
“The Great Ubuntu Girlfriend Experiment”
http://contentconsumer.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/is-ubuntu-useable-enough-for-my-girlfriend/
A pretty interesting post about what makes Ubuntu’s latest avatar (Hardy Heron) usable (or unusable) for people with average computer skills. It hit me that whatever we geeks assume as being self-evident is in reality quite disconnected with what is presented to us in the system. This post, to me, was more illustrative of how [...]
January 11, 2008
Mind Maps
A very useful technique to get your brain out on paper or on the computer. Whenever I do a mind map [†,§] I feel relaxed because I know what mental associations I am making about things I think about. I feel this is very important to me, since I can lose focus because I ponder [...]
