Category Archives: Epistemology

As of today 11th February 2020, a total of 40,554 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed including 909 deaths. COVID-19 fear has caused global traffic ban into, and city lockdown within China. COVID-19 certainly is a very serious epidemic, as my family lives in China, I found my self constantly looking for news and updatesContinue reading “COVID-19”

As humans, we engage in arguments all the time. To many of us, an argument is simply a collection of sentences that tries to make a point, which is not a bad definition. But to be a little more concise: An argument consists of premises and conclusions. Premises are the collection of statements that theContinue reading “What are arguments and how to make them”

Before Nicolaus Copernicus, geocentrism was the dominating theory in modeling planetary motions. Geocentrism (such as Ptolemaic system) can predict fairly well the motion of the stars. But for the motion of the planets, Ptolemaic system fails to predict their motion. That’s why planets means “wandering stars” (Ancient Greek: ἀστέρες πλανῆται asteres planetai). To overcome this limitation, theContinue reading “On Science and Logic”