philosophy of science
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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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On the shoulders of giants “por los siglos de los siglos” History becomes possible when at least three natural cycles repeat with incommensurate periods, producing configurations whose relative phases continually drift and never exactly repeat. The Earth–Sun–Moon system presents observers with a particular sort of temporal environment: a set of stable but incommensurate cycles whose…
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The nature of scientific progress is a perennial question in the philosophy of science. Are we gradually converging on a complete, true description of reality through scientific inquiry, or is the evolution of scientific knowledge more akin to an unguided evolutionary process? In this post, I’ll argue that the answer lies somewhere in between: science…
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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…
The Trinitarian Mystery 