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RESEARCH NOTE: ANGLO-AMERICAN MAJOR BELIEF-DOUBT SYSTEMS
This is a research note to preserve copyright and notice to this new and substantive thesis of the Anglo-American major belief-doubt systems, since the seventeenth century, which at the end of that century expanded, and transformed, the power of the English monarchy to a new entity known as the United Kingdom of…
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SBSF Submission as Feedback on Kurilpa Sustainable Growth Precinct
Minister for State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning (the Planning Minister) PO Box 15009, City East, Queensland 4002 Submission as Feedback on Kurilpa Sustainable Growth Precinct Temporary Local Planning Instrument No.1 of 2023 (Brisbane City Council) – DSDILGP Dear Stephen Miles [Planning Minister], cc. Environmental Minister cc. Health Minister Please accept…
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Historical Enterprises 1) Not Spoken, 2) Not Heard, 3) Not Understood
On sending out an article from The New York Times, on how a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana claimed the American Federal administration was trying to silence its critics on social media, a dear friend asked me, “Isn’t free speech part of their constitution?” “Free speech” is not…
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Letter to the Queensland Government and Heritage Council
Hi Birdie, and representatives in the Queensland Government and the Heritage Council, I am gobsmacked too. I am here in this reply to formally put a public complaint and accusation to the Queensland Government of ‘playing’ cognitive games in its bureaucracy. I can make this point as an expert in constructivist epistemology, critical heritage,…
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Whither Local History: A 2023 Australian Historical Association Presentation, with full paper to follow
The following is a 1777 word presentation to fit the 20 minutes at the 2023 Australian Historical Association conference in Melbourne. Those who are interested or concerned about municipal governance and understanding the local studies are invited to provide feedback, comments, criticisms, questions, and other thoughts. New Version PDF Re-Write here. Old Version PDF Copy…
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Why the Disciplines and No Apologetics? Part 1: The Collapse of Schaefferan Apologetics
Image: An image of Francis Schaeffer, http://www.pcahistory.org/images/schaeffer01.jpg on the Wikipedia entry site. INTRODUCTION James Fodor, Unreasonable Faith: How William Lane Craig Overstates the Case for Christianity (Hypatia Press, 2018) is a very generous critique towards the Christian apologist. Foder is making the argument for me on how apologetics completely miss the wider disciplinary critiques.…
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Social Media Request on Thoughts Re: the Lord Mayor’s Reply
The image (you can zoom in to read) is a reply from the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, responding to my letter, dated 5 April 2023, asking a series of questions on the multiple anniversaries – bicentennial and centennial events – for the City of Brisbane and for Queensland history (1823-1824, 1925; 2023-2025). I…
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Revelatory and Recovery Moments: Assessing Life’s Journeys and Directions
Evangelicals offer a providential worldview, that centres on evangelical message(s) of the promise to have special access to God, and beyond that, that they – each member of God’s Kingdom – enjoy special access to God, as revelatory knowledge, through the person of the Holy Spirit. Outside of the evangelical bubble, persons find such…
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FULLER VIEW FOR TELLING THE STORY OF AUSTRALIAN EVANGELICAL HISTORY
© EHA Inc. and Dr Neville Buch For the 2023 Evangelical History Association (EHA) Conference, “Telling Our Story”, Alphacrucis College, 30 Cowper St, Parramatta NSW, Australia. 10.45-11.15. a.m. Saturday 20 May, 2023, Alphacrucis College, 30 Cowper St, Parramatta NSW, Australia. This is the presentation handout version which is not the abbreviated 20 minutes speaking presentation, nor…
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Why Machine Learning is Not Learning? The Human Factors
Machine Learning is Not Learning. The reason is simply that learning understood correctly is an human activity. Machines calculate in the algorithm, generating impossible numbers for humans to reproduce in short time. That is not learning in the clear concept of ‘learning’. At most, it may be called one process of mathematical ‘learning’, in which…