epistemology
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Mark Tracy Imagine living in a world where patterns repeat in a meaningful sense—but never in exactly the same way. The Sun rises every day.The Moon goes through phases.The seasons return each year. But if you look closely, these cycles do not line up perfectly. The lunar month does not divide evenly into the year.…
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I understand that Reality is a priori OPEN (by “Reality” I mean that which IS, prior to anything we may say about it), yet I operate under the assumption that Reality may be segmented (provisionally) into objects with properties and relationships between them. Among those objects is “me” or “self.” More explicitly, I make the…
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This post is intended to introduce and summarize the main concepts presented in my book, The Trinitarian Mystery: Escaping Solipsism. Process is meaningless without objects that interact, but a world of objects alone is a world without content. There must be nodes AND edges. There are three models that I have found particularly fruitful that…
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Upon AwakeningFor what was I born?What did you want from me, youwho woke me from my slumber?Or did you just wish to show mewhat it was to be awake?To be surprise itself.To talk with a bird, on a walk, too small for my hands.To know the crunch of a pinecone underfoot.To feel the warmth of…
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I have recently been running polls on my Instagram to encourage philosophical thought and to gauge my followers’ beliefs (and because they are fun). I ran the following poll (results are shown alongside options): Everything is ultimately justified through: (choose best) Faith (8 %) Logic (8%) Experience (75%) Other / show results (8%) The purpose…
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This post is a collection of quick thoughts. My goal in writing it is to come closer to an emotional resolution on the topic of fallibilism and the apparent problem posed by the reflexivity thereof. Does absolute certainty exist? First, one can never prove with absolute certainty that absolute certainty is not possible, because to…
