Michele Pasin / Quotes

Atheism

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed.

Saved 20 December 2017 / en.wikipedia.org ↗

#evidence #cause #subjects

A topic can be anything whatsoever

What then is a topic? A topic, in its most generic sense, can be any “thing” whatsoever — a person, an entity, a concept, really anything — regardless of…

The Tao Of Topic Maps #words #subjects #objects #sense #topic #mind

Aristotle's hypokeimenon

We may use Nishida's own terms to explain his second concern, the way that objects ordinarily function in judgments. In what Nishida alternatively called the…

Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy) #judgments #objects #subjects

Blank node identifiers

Since a complex graph might contain more than one blank node, there also needs to be a way to differentiate between these different blank nodes in a triples…

Rdf Primer #nodes #identifiers #subjects #form #results

Faceted classification

We call sites like this, where the link labels residing at the same level of depth in the directed acyclic graph (DAG) correspond to a facet (Wynar, 2000) of…

Supporting Multiple Paths To Objects In Information Hierarchies: Faceted Classification, Faceted Search, And Symbolic Links #subjects #levels #classification #facets

Judgement derives from Belief, Belief from Pleasure and Pain

The first step towards the logical is judgment, the essence of which, according to the best logicians, is belief. At the foundation of all beliefs lie…

Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits #pain #sensation #subjects #feelings #beliefs

Science topography based on analysis of research fronts

The present research suggests that most papers, through citations, are knit together rather tightly. The total research front of science, however, has never…

Networks Of Scientific Papers #years #citations #men #subjects