Tag: truth

08
Jul
2019

Commitment: Super Short Story #554

Commitment: Super Short Story #554 Lying with fingers crossed, she was as if committing, paradoxically promising to lie, with a…

26
Jun
2019

Razor #8: Sagan’s Standard

Sagan’s Standard: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Thought: Ordinary claims require only ordinary evidence; unless they were mistaken as ordinary….

26
Jun
2019

Razor #7: Popper’s Falsifiability Principle

Popper’s Falsifiability Principle: For a theory to be considered scientific, it must be falsifiable. Thought: Even the scientific are called…

26
Jun
2019

Razor #6: Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword

Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword: If something cannot be settled by experiment or observation, then it is not worthy of debate….

26
Jun
2019

Razor #5: Hitchens’ Razor

Hitchens’ Razor: What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Thought: The burden to create faith must…

26
Jun
2019

Razor #1: Occam’s Razor

Occam’s Razor: Simpler explanations are more likely to be correct; avoid unnecessary or improbable assumptions. Thought: Things are often simpler…

26
Mar
2019

Unicorn: Super Short Story #546

Unicorn: Super Short Story #546 Just because you found a word that describes something or some feeling  does not mean…

22
Jan
2019

Error: Dharmagram #348

  Error: Dharmagram #348 To cling to your error is to imprison yourself. (From Marcus Aurelius’ ‘Meditations’)

15
Jan
2019

Truth: Dharmagram #343

  Truth: Dharmagram #343 Think the true. Say the true. Do the true. (From Marcus Aurelius’ ‘Meditations’)

01
Jan
2019

Opera: Dharmagram #314 

  Opera: Dharmagram #314  May dramas highlight truths dramatically

03
Dec
2018

Side: Super Short Story #517

Side: Super Short Story #517 He thought she was being too unobjective,  in not deciding to take a side on…

03
Dec
2018

News: Super Short Story #521

News: Super Short Story #521 There used to just be true news. Then quickly came semi-true and semi-fake news, and…

02
Nov
2018

Flower: Dharmagram #283

Flower: Dharmagram #283 While some of the fake look so real, some of the real look so fake? This is…

18
Sep
2018

Homage: Dharmagram #234

  Homage: Dharmagram #234 Screenshot from ‘Icarus’. (Homage to truth, truth-sayers, truthseekers and the truthful.)

12
Sep
2018

Truth: Dharmagram #232

  Truth: Dharmagram #232 Screenshot from ‘Icarus’.

29
Aug
2018

Truth: Dharmagram #209

  Truth: Dharmagram #209 True seekers of truth must honour and protect truths and their own truthfulness.

27
Jun
2018

Timelessness: Dharmagram #155

Timelessness: Dharmagram #155 Dead philosophers are still worth studying if the truths they spoke and wrote of are timeless, still…

27
Jun
2018

Truth: Dharmagram #151

Truth: Dharmagram #151 Since truth endures for all time, be truthful at all times.

21
May
2018

Insult: Dharmagram #107

Insult: Dharmagram #107 Insults that are true are but reminders of truth, while insults that are untrue are but reminders…

15
May
2018

Fact: Dharmagram #92

Fact: Dharmagram #92 Since discerning truth matters, recognising lies that obfuscate it does too.