Journeyman Philosopher

A recurring theme on this blog is the relationship between mathematics and reality. It started with the Pythagoreans (in Western philosophy)...

 Let’s look at quantum mechanics (QM). I watched a YouTube video on Closer To Truth with Fred Alan Wolf, a theoretical physicist, whom I a...

 I’ve said many times that philosophy is all about argument. And if you’re serious about philosophy, you want to be challenged. And if you w...

 I’ve been doing this blog for 15 years now, and in that time some of my ideas have changed or evolved, and, in some areas, my knowledge has...

  This was a question on Quora, and I provided 2 responses: one being a comment on someone else’s post (whom I follow); and the other being ...

  In some respects, I think infinity is what delineates mathematics from the ‘Real’ world, meaning the world we can all see and touch and ot...

  I’ve argued previously, and consistently, that the Universe is not deterministic; however, many if not most physicists believe it is. I’ve...

A recurring theme on my blog has been the limits of what we can know. So Marcus du Sautoy’s book, What We Cannot Know , fits the bill. I acq...