Contents

• Reason and its Limitations
  • Wanted: Answers to some Big Questions
    • Primate Philosophy
    • Big Questions, Big Answers
    • The Advantage of Reason
  • The Laws of Thought
    • Making a Living as an Early Philosopher
    • Thought and the Joy of Sets
      • Quantum Theory and the Laws of Thought
    • Assertions and Experience
  • Formal Set Theory
    • Naive Set versus Axiomatic Set Theories
    • The Power Set
    • Set Theory and the Laws of Thought
    • The Null Set
    • A Bit of Formalism
    • Set Theory of Thought
    • Summary
  • Logic
    • Examples of Logic in Action
      • Computational Logic
      • Propositional Logic
      • Predicate Logic
  • What's an Axiom
  • Gödel
  • Paradoxes
    • Fun with Logic: Contradictions and Null Results
  • The Pit of Existential Despair
  
  
• Philosophy
  • Philosophy is Bullshit
    • Philosophy is Bullshit
  • The Fundamental Axioms of Religion:
    • The Common Memes of Religious Scripture
    • Memetic analysis of the Superorganism
    • Religion versus Science: Axiom Wars
  • The Fundamental Axioms of Science
  • The Fundamental Axioms of Human Society
  • Critique of Specific Philosophies
    • Why Descartes Proof of God's Existence is Bullshit
    • Why Solipsism is Bullshit
    • Why Science (Natural Philosophy) is Bullshit
    • Why Logical Positivism is Bullshit
    • Why the Ontological Proof of God's Existence is Bullshit
    • Why the Intelligent Design ``Theory'' is Bullshit
    • Why Religious Scripture is (without exception) Bullshit
    • Why Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness is Bullshit
    • Proof by Silliness: Fairy Philosophy
  
  
• Axioms
  • Meta-Axioms
    • The Axiom of Open-Mindedness
    • Shaving the Barber with the Razor of Ockham
    • The Esthetic Principle
    • The Axiom of Romance
    • The Axiom of Deity
  • You ``Are'' Your Axioms
    • The Axiom of Open-Mindedness
    • Shaving the Barber with the Razor of Ockham
    • The Esthetic Principle
  • Conclusions
  • Galileo and St. Bellarmine