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169The fragility of freedom of speechJournal of Medical Ethics 39 (5): 316-316. 2013.Freedom of speech is a fundamental liberty that imposes a stringent duty of tolerance. Tolerance is limited by direct incitements to violence. False notions and bad laws on speech have obscured our view of this freedom. Hence, perhaps, the self-righteous intolerance, incitements and threats in response to Giubilini and Minerva. Those who disagree have the right to argue back but their attempts to shut us up are morally wrong
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35GILLIES, D.-Philosophical Theories of Probability (review)Philosophical Books 44 (1): 92-94. 2003.
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29Two Rhetorical ManoeuvresProceedings of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation Conference 5. 2003.
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20Bertrand’s Paradox and the Principle of IndifferenceRoutledge. 2024.Events between which we have no epistemic reason to discriminate have equal epistemic probabilities. Bertrand’s chord paradox, however, appears to show this to be false, and thereby poses a general threat to probabilities for continuum sized state spaces. Articulating the nature of such spaces involves some deep mathematics and that is perhaps why the recent literature on Bertrand’s Paradox has been almost entirely from mathematicians and physicists, who have often deployed elegant mathematics o…Read more
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Enkrasia and the Fixed Point Thesis are equivalent.
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