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Topic: Material fallacy

	John Dewey [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Dewey begins with the observation that the world as we experience it both individually and collectively is an admixture of the precarious, the transitory and contingent aspect of things, and the stable, the patterned regularity of natural processes that allows for prediction and human intervention.
		The process of intelligent use of materials and the imaginative development of possible solutions to problems issuing in a reconstruction of experience that affords immediate satisfaction, the process found in the creative work of artists, is also to be found in all intelligent and creative human activity.
		What distinguishes artistic creation is the relative stress laid upon the immediate enjoyment of unified qualitative complexity as the rationalizing aim of the activity itself, and the ability of the artist to achieve this aim by marshalling and refining the massive resources of human life, meanings, and values.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/d/dewey.htm (5925 words)

	PRODOS.COM internet radio - Ayn Rand, Science, Lateral Thinking, Rights, Capitalism, Art, Humour
		Rene Descartes —— the material universe as a giant piece of clockwork; “I think; therefore I am.” Looking for that which cannot be doubted.
		reative minds in the material realm of business just as creative as those in the spiritual realm of art.
		Most Christians I know are opposed to capitalism, profit, and 'materialism'.
	www.prodos.com /index.html (5973 words)

	Torah Codes
		We show how MBBK revealed only some of their results, and that the way they chose to present those results seriously skews the true picture which would be drawn from their own variations.
		We also explain the fallacy of MBBK's a posteriori excuses for their partial presentation of their results.
		All material here authored by Doron Witztum was originally produced by him in Hebrew.
	www.torahcodes.co.il (4962 words)

	Design Inference Website: The Writings of William A. Dembski
		THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM A. All material on this website is copyright and may be reproduced only for personal use.
		Dembski's contribution to Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA (Cambridge University Press, to appear 2003, co-edited with Michael Ruse).
		This bit of frivolity adapts and extends Paul Dunmore's "The Uses of Fallacy," New Zealand Mathematics Magazine, vol.
	www.designinference.com (2889 words)

	Laws of Nature [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Regularists will retort that the supposed explanatory advantage of Necessitarianism is illusory.
		Physical necessity — nomicity if you will — is as idle and unempirical a notion as was Locke's posit of a material substratum.
		Locke's notion fell into deserved disuse simply because it did no useful work in science.
	www.iep.utm.edu /l/lawofnat.htm (6297 words)

	The Anthropic Preprint Archive
		Investigates whether fine-tuning is something that needs explaining, and if so, whether a multiverse theory could provide a satisfactory explanation.
		I argue that the root cause of the flaw in the argument for 1/3 is an erroneous assimilation with a repeated experiment.
		Nick Wedd has performed a public service by collecting selected postings on the newsgroup rec.puzzles on the Sleeping Beauty problem, by himself and others, and editing them into an easy-to-read webpage.
	www.anthropic-principle.com /preprints.html (4118 words)

	Architectural Review: books
		Vol I: The Vitruvian Fallacy – a History of the Categories in Architecture and Philosophy
		MATERIAL STONE: CONSTRUCTIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
		MATERIAL WORLD: INNOVATIVE STRUCTURES AND FINISHES FOR INTERIORS
	www.arplus.com /book/main.htm (1259 words)

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