paradigms

Transcendental Arguments, Paradigms & The Philosophy of Symbols – Jay & Posh Redneck

Long requested guest Posh Redneck joins me to cover his area of specialty – linguistics, and how the philosophy of language teaches us about paradigms. In fact, there is no better illustration of paradigms than language and the holistic context of meanings and referents. Posh will also delve into his deep take on various symbols […]

Jay w/Hoax Busters: Darwinian Materialism as Metaphysical Presupposition

I called into the Hoax Buster’s Call to discuss the crucial subject of how presuppositions and paradigms function as templates to interpret “facts.”  There are no “brute facts” that come un-interpreted, outside of some contextual framework or worldview.  In this discussion we investigate how the human mind categorizes the “data” or experience and how our governing assumptions about life and the world determine what the “facts” are, which constitute evidence and/or which are rejected and reinterpreted based on our beliefs (even when we presu