The Ontology of Flux

We all operate using a version of what we feel is a reflection of the “way that things are.”  What happens when that version is based on variability is, at the end of the day, a prime driver of statistical thinking. My friend Marc Hersch has been doing some interesting writing that raises the issue [...]

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Posted Under: Statistical Thinking
This post was written by John on April 23, 2009 Comments (2)

Metaphysics on the fly

The Taoist Dragon I saw this image recently and liked it quite a bit. I was reading about the development of dualistic thinking. In the western tradition the idea of dualisms is thought to have been first developed by Herclitus. He is our “…you can’t step in the same stream twice…” friend, who noted that [...]

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This post was written by John on January 26, 2008 Comments (0)