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Pi: Chaos Theory. Jacques Derrida. Jacques Derrida (/ʒɑːk ˈdɛrɨdə/; French: [ʒak dɛʁida]; born Jackie Élie Derrida;[1] July 15, 1930 – October 9, 2004) was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria.

Jacques Derrida

Derrida is best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy.[3][4][5] During his career Derrida published more than 40 books, together with hundreds of essays and public presentations. He had a significant influence upon the humanities and social sciences, including—in addition to philosophy and literature—law[6][7][8] anthropology,[9] historiography,[10] linguistics,[11] sociolinguistics,[12] psychoanalysis, political theory, feminism, and queer studies. Richard Maurice Bucke. Richard Maurice Bucke.

Richard Maurice Bucke

Richard Maurice Bucke (18 March 1837 – 19 February 1902) was a prominent Canadian psychiatrist in the late 19th century. An adventurer during his youth, Bucke later studied medicine and practiced psychiatry in Ontario. He was a friend of several noted men of letters in Canada, the United States, and England.[1] Besides publishing professional articles, Bucke wrote three books: Man's Moral Nature, Walt Whitman, and Cosmic Consciousness, a study of mystical experience, which is his best-known work.

Biography[edit] Law of truly large numbers. Example[edit] For a simplified example of the law, assume that a given event happens with a probability of 0.1% in one trial.

Law of truly large numbers

Then the probability that this unlikely event does not happen in a single trial is 99.9% = 0.999. Dokkōdō. The "Dokkōdō" [ (Japanese: 独行道?)

Dokkōdō

; "The Path of Aloneness", "The Way to Go Forth Alone", or "The Way of Walking Alone"] is a short work written by Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵) a week before he died in 1645. It consists of either nineteen or twenty-one precepts; precepts 4 and 20 are omitted from the former version. "Dokkodo" was largely composed on the occasion of Musashi giving away his possessions in preparation for death, and was dedicated to his favorite disciple, Terao Magonojō (to whom the earlier Go rin no sho [The Book of Five Rings] had also been dedicated), who took them to heart.

Skeptic Money & Blog Archive & 5 Inescapable Implications Of Christianity That Undo Christianity - You make sense but does your money? Post by Ed Clint "Eh, as long as he keeps giving us free fish let's not ask any questions.

Skeptic Money & Blog Archive & 5 Inescapable Implications Of Christianity That Undo Christianity - You make sense but does your money?

" There are many arguments from history’s great philosophers, orators and atheists which semantically dismantle religious arguments. One need only google Hume, Ingersoll, or Hitchens to reach trenchant analyses of the structural flaws in theistic ideation. As much as I enjoy their sumptuous intellectual bounty, I find the most powerful and easiest objections to Christianity are a simple matter of accepting all of the premises, and imagining what the immediate consequences and implications are.

Truly faulty ideas do not need to be hammered to bits: they fall apart under the weight of their own flaws. Science and Spirituality. Any Points of Contact?

Science and Spirituality

The Teachings of U.G.Krishnamurti: A Case Study [Paper presented by Dr. J.S.R.L.Narayana Moorty at the Krishnamurti Centennial Conference held at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, U.S.A., May 18-21, 1995] The following paper discusses some issues commonly raised in regard to the relationship between science and spirituality. Presocratic Philosophy.

The Origins of Western Thought Philosophical Thinking Philosophy as a discipline isn't easy to define precisely.

Presocratic Philosophy

Issuing from a sense of wonderment about life and the world, it often involves a keen interest in major questions about ourselves, our experience, and our place in the universe as a whole. But philosophy is also reflectively concerned with the methods its practitioners employ in the effort to resolve such questions. Emerging as a central feature of Western culture, philosophy is a tradition of thinking and writing about particular issues in special ways. At bottom, every man knows perfectly well that he is a unique being, onlyonce on this ea..... - Nietzsche. POSTER: English Is A Crazy Language.

Do you think English is easy to learn?

POSTER: English Is A Crazy Language

Well, here's a short example of how complicated it in fact is! Check out this high quality print-friendly poster below - you're most welcome to print it out and place either in your classroom or Teacher's Room for everyone to see. Don't forget to 'LIKE' it or tweet about it (see the buttons above), or email it to your fellow teachers! Enjoyed this poster and learned something? Please share it! Want more teaching tips like this? Get the Entire BusyTeacher Library Instant download. Show me sample pages → Rate this article: Richard Dawkins - "What if you're wrong?" South Park. Music and Life - Alan Watts. Henry David Thoreau. Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.

Henry David Thoreau