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Love, Union, and Psychological Egoism

I have often battled with the question of how is it that we can really care and hope to depend on others while truly maintaining a connection with them that is not merely out of selfishness. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines psychological egoism as: “People having but one ultimate aim: their own welfare.” Since we are confined to our bodies we can only be cognizant of our conscious states in reference to ourselves in totality. The information pertaining to our perception a [...continue reading]

The Logical Playground of Socrates

Not too long ago I was introduced to a work that is supposedly a conversation that occurred between Socrates and a religious expert named Euthyphro. This is one of Plato’s early dialogues and was written shortly after the death of Socrates. I don’t intend on going into a great amount of detail in regards to the entire dialogue, so if you’d like to get the entire scope of the dialogue then I recommend you read it! I do think it would be a good idea to read it first before you read this [...continue reading]

The Implication Connector And Proofs

If you are not familiar with this logical operator yet, then I hope I can introduce you to it today! I am currently learning about the implication operator in logic (=>) and it is a very curious operator. First off I plan on trying to dispel any ambiguous rhetoric along the way and I hope it doesn’t become too tedious in doing so.

We are all familiar with logical operators in natural language. For instance if you said “John and Mary are white” then you could write it with the [...continue reading]