{"id":7731,"date":"2014-08-30T10:12:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T10:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/30\/angst-and-the-empty-set\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T10:12:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T10:12:12","slug":"angst-and-the-empty-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/30\/angst-and-the-empty-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Angst<\/i> and the Empty Set"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first saw this article<\/a>, I thought to myself, "Oh boy, another load of stinking, steaming, scientistic bullshit by some know-nothing science writer or physicist for me to sink my logic shovel into!"<\/span><\/p>\n

You have heard it said, 'Take the bull by the horns.'  But I say unto you, 'Take the bull by the shovel!'<\/span><\/p>\n

But then I started reading and realized that the author knows what he is talking about.  Philosophers won't find anything new here, but it is an adequate piece of popular writing that may be of use to the educated layman.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When I first saw this article, I thought to myself, "Oh boy, another load of stinking, steaming, scientistic bullshit by some know-nothing science writer or physicist for me to sink my logic shovel into!" You have heard it said, 'Take the bull by the horns.'  But I say unto you, 'Take the bull by the … Continue reading “Angst<\/i> and the Empty Set”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nothingness","category-scientism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}