The Philosophy of Logic is a branch of Philosophy which deals with the scope and nature of Logic, and investigates philosophical problems raised by Logic, such as presuppositions often implicitly at work in theories and applications. It involves questions about how Logic is defined and how different logical systems are connected to each other, as well as...

John Locke (29 Aug 1632 - 28 Oct 1704) was an English physician and philosopher, and a key Enlightenment influence. After Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes, Locke developed “Empiricism” as a strong response to the “Dualism” and “Rationalism” of René Descartes, and a new Contract Theory in response to the...

GetMeta was the original title of this GetWiki.net wiki, but the wiki was renamed to GetWiki on 11 March, 2007, to take advantage of the more well-known name. The GetMeta name was also the original “meta” topic area, a “metanamespace” in Wiki terms, for GetWiki, and for many years GetMeta was a place for pages and discussion related to the wiki itself. By 2025 and...

The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) is a scientific proposal based on numerous findings that the onset of the “Younger Dryas” (YD) period at the end of the last glacial era around 12,800 years ago was the result of a complex set of cosmic and oceanic events. YDIH is an additional explanation for the hypothesis that YD was caused by “shutdown” of ocean currents, such as the “North Atlantic Conveyor”,...

Open Source computer software is that whose “source code”, the code which generates the software's system or purpose, is either in the Public Domain or, more commonly, is copyright-protected by one or more persons or entities and licensed to anyone according to an Open Source License. This usually grants permission to use and redistribute the software, as well as to modify its source code and distribute modified...

Science (or “Universal Science”) is a traditional branch of Metaphysics, which is a major branch of Philosophy. This fact and truth may seem controversial, it may be anathema to some, but there it is. The entire project and purpose of Science is the forever more fundamental and rigorous pursuit of Theory, Observation, Measurement, and Tabulation of, well, everything...

Friedrich Nietzsche (15 October 1844 - 25 August 1900, and pronounced: “NeetShuh”) was a Prussian (German) philosopher whose work encompassed Poetry, cultural criticism, philosophical essays, and aphorisms. Including strong elements of Philology, irony and insult, pointed criticisms of Truth and religious pseudo-morality,...

PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) is a programming language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. PHP is used mainly in server-side scripting, but can be used from a command line interface or in standalone GUI applications. The main implementation is produced by “The PHP Group” and released under the PHP License. It is considered to be free software and is available in most distributions. PHP is generally...

There are many definitions of Complexity, therefore many natural, artificial and abstract objects or networks can be considered to be complex systems, and their study (complexity science) is highly interdisciplinary. Examples of complex systems include ant-hills, ants themselves, economies, nervous systems, cells and living things, including human beings, as well as modern energy or telecommunication...

Thomas Hobbes (5 Apr 1588 - 4 Dec 1679) was an English political philosopher, most famous for his book Leviathan (1651) and his view of a “State of Nature” to avoid as a life which would be “brutish, nasty and short”. His view of the necessity of a powerful central Government, where some may be stronger or more intelligent than others, but none are beyond fear...

Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 - 25 June 1984, and pronounced: “Fookoh”) was a French philosopher who was also a professor, literary critic, and political activist. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the relationships between social and political Power as contrasted with traditional studies of Knowledge, Existence, or Liberty,...

The Philosophy of Science is the branch of Philosophy which deals with the study of Science (in the sense of “Natural Science”). The Philosophy of Science is closely related to many areas in Metaphysics such as Teleology, as well as Epistemology, Logic, and even Ethics. Philosophers of Science seek to explain the very nature of...

The Philosophy of Language is a specialization of Epistemology, which is a major branch of Philosophy. The Philosophy of Language is about understanding how Language relates to the Mind and Society. How the source and structure of Language affects or influences our thinking, and how we use Language to control and interact...

All Rights Reserved © 1998-99 M.R.M. Parrott'Against Objectivism' first appeared as a series of internet discussion posts on Usenet, in 1998-99, and is a chapter in Synthetic A Priori, by M.R.M. Parrott. Take the Objectivist Challenge! Download and read the linked [mrmparrott.com/-title=0-9662635-6-1...

How many students have relied on false information from Pseudopedia? Is the fact that it's a Wiki relevant to the question?“Pseudopedia”, “The Pseudopedia”, is an open-content information website, whose co-founder claims is the “sum of all human knowledge”, or at least, that it should become that sum. Since 2003, The Pseudopedia has immensely popularized the concepts of “Wiki” and free information in the public...

Systems Theory (or Theorie) or General Systems Theory or Systemics is an interdisciplinary field which studies Systems as a whole. Systems Theory was founded by Ludwig von Bertalanffy, William Ross Ashby and others between the 1940s and the 1970s with focus on Physics, Biology, and Engineering, and it later grew with connections into Philosophy, Sociology, and Economics, as developed by Fritjof Capra and others, as...

George Berkeley (12 Mar 1685 - 14 Jan 1753, and pronounced: “Barkly”) was an Anglo-Irish philosopher who advanced a theory of “Immaterialism”, seen as a powerful “Subjective Idealism”, Berkeley argued we can directly know only our own Sensation and Idea of an Object. The notion of “Matter”, for example, is an Idea dependent upon being Perceived by the...

Plato (428-27 - 348-47 BC) was a major Greek thinker in Ancient Philosophy, a student of Socrates, founder of the first Academy, and with his student Aristotle and the most important modern philosopher Kant, is still considered one of the singularly important philosophers of all time. Some thirty-five “Socratic” dialogues...

Religious Studies is a popular and important element in cultures world-wide, and in the Western traditions it was a part of Philosophy (specifically Metaphysics) along with Science, but that was a long, long time ago, during Antiquity, and particularly the Middle Ages. While both Philosophy and Science have seen incredible...

Timeless is a trilogy of action-adventure novels by M.R.M. Parrott, combining science fiction, time travel, intrigue, political theory and history, with stories of love and discovery. Timeless: A Novel Trilogy is available in paperback from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and other retailers via the publisher, [rimric.com...

Aesthetics (or Philosophy of Art) is a branch of Philosophy focused on the definition of Art in general and how we relate to what is Beautiful to us individually. The word Aesthetics was first used by the German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, and later Immanuel Kant, whose work on the Aesthetic and...

Epistemology is a branch of Philosophy dealing with the nature, origin and scope of Knowledge and Beliefs, how we come to have them, and methods of obtaining them. Epistemology asks about the ultimate justification and rationality of what we know, as well other “epistemic” features of Belief. “How do we know anything?” “What do we know when we know...

All Rights Reserved © 2001-2004 M.R.M. Parrott'Against Super Strings' is a condensed version of the refutation of “String Theory” which is a small part of the book, Dynamism: Volume I: Force, by M.R.M. Parrott. Against Super Strings -Strings, Super Strings, Super-Symmetrical Strings, etc, were the result of clever mathematical ideas and equations developed to...

Metadata (“about” or “above” + “data” or “information”), literally “data about data”, is information that describes another set of data. A common example is a library catalog card, which contains data about the contents and location of a book: It is data about the data in the book referred to by the card. Other common contents of metadata include the source or author of the described dataset, how it should be accessed,...

American Indian Philosophy is based on the tribal histories, cultures, Languages, and traditions of the early peoples of “The Americas” originating before colonization, histories which are still active today. Many key philosophical traditions developed across the very broad geographical area of the Americas, from Alaska to Patagonia,...