The rules of thumb work, because the object that have the similar causal structure get repeated over and over, resulting from the common cause. The similarity in many properties doesn’t just follow from the presence of few superficial ...

Andrew Sullivan links to this news article which links to this research article by Stamos Karamouzis and Dee Wood Harper called "An Artificial Intelligence System Suggests Arbitrariness of Death Penalty": ...

I'll have to go through my archives, because there is a considerable body of information here - but it was just brought to my attention that Cafasso has claimed in the past to have another home in FRANCE. ...

The Mitch and Nan Show used information from Stuporpatriots that had been taken down by blogger-but reappeared on a blog post at Stuporpatriots about Pelton's ridiculous book, "License to Kill"-- in order to intimidate Cao of Cao's blog ...

We can make a rigorous distinction between reasons and "purely causal" underpinnings of belief. I wrote earlier on consensus, truth and reality, and I can expand on this idea. We can create a causal story of belief as well as a logical ...

Since Scott Covington of Houston, Texas stole some information on Cao from Stuporpatriots, it seemed fitting to put a little information on Covington here. Covington fits the profile of someone who wants to follow in Cafasso's footsteps ...

Although the idea of causation is fundamental to the field of International Relations, what the concept of cause means or entails has remained an unresolved and contested matter. In recent decades ferocious debates have surrounded the ...

There is currently no study showing that open-mindedness is the reason that left-wingers are more likely to read right-wing blogs. The study currently being discussed in the blogosphere just states that the behavior occurs, ...

"On the one hand, acting out of necessity (or its opposite, free will) refers to the causal structure of our acts. An act that is necessary has a sufficient causal antecedent, either in terms of a specific set of causal conditions or, ...

Eades S, Read A, Stanley F, Eades F, McCaullay D, et al. (2008) Bibbulung gnarneep (’solid kid’): causal pathways to poor birth outcomes in an urban Aboriginal birth cohort. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health;44(6):342-346 (more…)