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The Horizon of Reason
Exploring the boundaries of logic and perception
Tag: logic
The customer is always right
One of the adages often proclaimed in marketing is: “the customer is always right”. An often heard objection against this is that bowing to every whim of customers would make it very hard to achieve organisational goals, i.e. to make a decent profit.
To find out what this actually means, this statement needs to be unpacked [...]
The truth of Pi
My idea of a great time: smoking sheesha in Egypt, wearing my favourite T-shirt (ThinkGeek.com).
The print on the shirt consists of the first 4,493 digits of the number Pi in the shape of the symbol itself.
The number Pi, not the number 42 as some have proposed, symbolises the ultimate truth of the universe. Let me [...]
Schools of Thought
I have now completed 75% of my undergraduate and can almost see light at the end of the tunnel. I started studying in 1996 at the Open Universiteit of the Netherlands, where I completed my first year.
I recently re-read some of the course material, as I was working on some Wikipedia articles. Reading the Dutch [...]
The Philosopher and the Mystic
Academic philosophy and mysticism do not go hand in hand. One of the first subjects in any philosophy course in the analytic tradition is logic. Students are taught the strict rules of reasoning, as applied by philosophers for about 2500 years. Students are also taught that every philosophy must comply with these rules.
These strict rules [...]
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