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Since Pascal’s Mugging is well known on LW, I won’t describe it at length. Suffice to say that a mugger tries to blackmail you by threatenin

[Cross-posted.] Belief, puzzling to philosophy, is part of psychology’s conceptual framework. The present essay provides a straightforward

[Crossposted] The medieval philosopher Buridan reportedly constructed a thought experiment to support his view that human behavior was det

[Crossposted] Argument My argument from the incoherence of actually existing infinitesimals has the following structure: 1. Infinitesima