HeyJaredNotes & Jottings
Various thoughts and gleanings that I'd like to keep and maybe share.
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Epistemic Clarity (opens the original)
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“The truth corresponds to reality.” 200 years ago that statement seemed a self-evident fact. In the 100 years or so following the philosophers lost all grip on what it meant. The Oxford Philologist Owen Barfield traced the development of human conscious, especially as revealed in historic philosophic and poetic writings for the whole of his life. He estimated that Mechanism, as a world-view, did not dominate science until around 1840-1850. The central dogma of biology, DNA makes RNA makes Protei
The Essence of Time (opens the original)
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Monday, 17 August 2026Philosophy concerns precision in qualitative concepts. There is a standard method to derive the essence of any concept from its general notion. You have to strip your experience down to the absolute minimum requirements which still satisfy that notion. To my knowledge, this has never been done for time, though it must have been. Thanks for reading Notes & Jottings! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form class="subscription-widget-s
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