You Can’t Lose This Argument
The reason it kept checking out isn’t that it’s true. It’s that nothing you could have found would have counted against it.
The Monitor I Wasn’t Looking At
My desk was arranged correctly on paper. My pointing hand quietly overruled it.
Why Do You Believe the Sun Will Rise Tomorrow?
You set an alarm for tomorrow morning. That small act contains an assumption nobody has ever managed to justify. The first post in a new series on open questions in philosophy.
Totschlagargument
There is a move in a conversation that doesn’t win the argument but ends it. In American constitutional debate, it has become the default. This is an essay about what that costs — not about guns.
What Survived the Move
Merging three sites meant rereading seventeen years of my own writing and deciding what I’d still defend. Most of it came across. Some of it didn’t.
Just Asking Questions: The Fallacy Nobody Commits
The problem is not questions. It is the question with a cause already inside it — a post hoc inference the speaker never performs, so it can never be pinned on them.
Cowardly Agnosticism
The charge that agnostics are fence-sitters is older than the internet. What’s new is that half of it now comes from people whose own position is the same withholding.