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Why the widest and deeper understanding of epistemology and critical thinking is to vote Yes at the referendum?
Following from my previous argument that the Common Sense Philosophy, although not perfect, leads into a pathway of better intelligence, and this is the Yes referendum position as intelligence, I need to fill in some gaps for others. A valued colleague pointed out to me that reception did not have…
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Excuse if the Post Has No Intention to your Motivations, But Yes is the Intelligence
Dear friends, The Common Sense Philosophy is not perfect but it can often lead into a pathway of better intelligence. Listen and watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAqIypjk-5A The honest conclusion for those who dedicated their lives to the widest and deeper understanding of epistemology and critical thinking is to vote Yes at the referendum.…
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What I do?
Someone said to me this morning: “I do not do philosophy. I get up early in the morning. I go to bed late at night”. Well, that sounds to be a particular philosophical idea. Nevertheless, it demonstrated to me confusion on my work. What I do, is explained in this diagram. “It is not…
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Rousseau without Hume and Hume without Rousseau: The Modernist Tragedy
The Conversation piece by Chris Fleming (Published: September 26, 2023 6.06am AEST) is informative but there is oddly no mention of Hume. It is a weird absence, since contemporary history of philosophy has successfully argued that we can not understand Rousseau without Hume, and, indeed this has been established as the public culture-history warfare of…
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Heritage Values in the Queensland State Government?
Heritage Values in the Queensland State Government? Don’t believe it! After 5.00 p.m., today (29 September 2023) at the end of business, I and a senior bureaucrat were sent an email of a s36A Notice – Non Complying Application (below) which will lead to the demolishing the “Yeerongpilly Railway Station Building_20230929” in the…
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Re: A Discussion Among Friends: SoFiA and Faith, Adelaide-Melbourne Progressivism and all that Jazz!
Dear folks, I felt the best thing I can do at this point is review different discussions in different quarters, and try to bring some mutual understanding. There are overlapping elements but they take the conversation off in different directions, and that’s okay, as we don’t need to be on about the same concerns to find…
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Open Letter to Unawares and Intended No Voters
Dear friend, You are intending to vote ‘No’ in the upcoming referendum, and yet I call you ‘friend’. I have no animosity to those who wish to vote ‘No’. The purpose of my open letter is create some awareness in your consideration of the vote, one way or the other. …
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Behind the Wizard’s Curtain: Social Media and the Early 21st Century
Apparently, “I am being blocked by Quora”, and I thought I was (not so). There have certainly been times when Quora has blocked my scholarly answers. On this occasion I wrote a post commending an answer about “What is it about Australian culture that Americans just don’t understand?”. Then I wrote, …
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Re-Thinking Australian-American Paradigms
Without doubt, Allan Megill is the best intellectual historian in the United States. His paradigm on what constitutes historical knowledge, and what constitutes historical error, is the framing for my multidisciplinary work. There are three American scholars, who have continued to shaped my thinking in the Australian-American discourse, the other two are historical geographer David…
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2023-2025 NDB Book Project Priorities
In 2021, I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2021-2023. I had started this strategy in 2018, when I set out my book research and writing priorities for the three years 2018-2020. The gap year of 2020 in book planning was a reset from the ethos of the Covid-19…