Van Harvey

Logic, which Aristotle developed upon his Metaphysics, and Analytics, guides us in how to use reason methodically in relation to what is real and true. The point is to methodically identify and eliminate contradictions from our assumptions and to show…

They say that ‘Facts don’t lie!’, which may be ‘true enough’, but it ignores the fact that neither do facts tell the truth, and those liars who understand how little people suspect that facts can be used to tell lies, arrange their selected facts and t…

To gain a better understanding of what is happening around us, we need to make better distinctions about what underlies – causes – those events, in order to foresee where they are likely to be leading us. Doing so enables us to better understand, pred…

Whether the unfathomable outrage of the moment involves praising the burning down of cities as peaceful protests or ignoring those in order to spin up minor riots as horrific insurrections, or claiming that it takes a biologist to define what a woman i…

Ideally, as gone into in the previous posts (here, here, here, and here), what’s worth knowing, tells us about ‘What is Truth’, and with the differing kinds of knowledge that can be known, he who knows their causes, will know them (and themselves) best…