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THE PHILOSOPHER’S DILEMMA. “Very often, when we make general statements, there is an explicit or contextual restriction. ‘All ravens are black’ is a generalization about ravens. When leaving a plane with my wife, she might ask, “Were you sure to take everything?” Clearly that refers to the possessions that I brought onto the plane (and perhaps such of hers as she took me to be responsible for). So a negative answer would not be implied by my not having taken the inflight magazine or the airsickness bag from the picket in front of my seat.” https://lnkd.in/d9K-JQv View in LinkedIn

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. “In memory of Prof. Jacob D. Bekenstein (1947–2015), whose seminal papers have inspired my research.” https://lnkd.in/d3sfhP6 View in LinkedIn

THE SAVING GRACE. “Finally, we have explicitly shown that the increase in black-hole entropy, which is a direct consequence of the (generalized) hoop conjecture, when combined with the Bekenstein entropy bound, ensures the validity of Bekenstein’s GSL in this historical gedanken experiment.” (GSL = the generalized second law of thermodynamics). https://lnkd.in/d3sfhP6 View in LinkedIn

THE LOOPHOLE. “We have proved that a new (and larger) horizon is already formed before the body reaches the horizon of the original near-extremal black hole.” https://lnkd.in/d3sfhP6 View in LinkedIn

The plants have only just started to come to the end of their prodigious spring flower output and already flowers that set with suitable pollen are already being manufactured into seeds within fruits. View in LinkedIn

REASON + INTUITION. “Dual Process Theories (DPT) of reasoning posit that judgments are mediated by both fast, automatic processes and more deliberate, analytic ones. There is much evidence to support the thesis that reasoning and decision-making are accomplished by recourse to two qualitatively different types of processes.” https://lnkd.in/d8gkPCQ View in LinkedIn

PRIMACY OF INFO. “This viewpoint invites a new look at venerable questions. The information storage capacity of devices such as hard-disk drives has been increasing by leaps and bounds. When will such progress halt?” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn