Frank Hubeny

Northbrook, IL

https://frankhubeny.wordpress.com/

I am a retired database programmer. I have a masters in applied mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a masters in pure mathematics from the University of Maine at Orono.

I also enjoy literature.

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What is the difference between depth and surface information?

logic philosophy-of-mathematics information axiom asked Jan 7, 2019 at 14:10

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Can an argument be formally valid with sound premises and still be informally fallacious?

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Are Platonic Forms alive?

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Was Hegel a Neoplatonist?

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What would be an intuitive understanding of Peirce's law?

logic symbolic-logic peirce asked Nov 27, 2018 at 20:52

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Do theories come from observations or do they determine what is observed?

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What other theistic positions support open theism besides Christianity?

reference-request theology philosophy-of-religion omniscience libertarianism-free-will asked May 9, 2018 at 15:47

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Does anyone have a proof checker they prefer using for modal logic?

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In which writings does Charles Sanders Peirce generalize the idea of freedom so that it applies to all creatures?

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Where did Ptolemy compare the Earth to the distance of fixed stars?

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Top Answers

Is there a fallacy about "appeal to 'big words'"?

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How to prove (A v B), (A → C), (B → D) therefore (C v D)

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Asserting that Atheism and Theism are both faith based positions

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Isn't the knowledge of the non-existence of "God", objective?

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How is the claim "I am in New York only if I am in America" the same as "If I am in New York, then I am in America?

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What's the name of the logical fallacy where a debater extends a statement far beyond the original statement to make it true?

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Is it possible when two people in a debate "throwing" "logical fallacy" to each other?

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Is every sentence we write or utter either true or false?

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How can substance dualism survive the arguments from neuroscience?

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Can time exist without change?

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How does mathematics work?

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Falsification in Math vs Science

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Why is 2 considered a prime number?

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Is religion necessary for the good life?

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How can one not believe in god as the root cause of the universe?

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What is to be understood by the phrase "Israel's right to exist"?

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How is Wittgenstein’s “notorious paragraph” about the Gödel's Theorem not obviously correct?

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How to disprove "I'm entitled to my opinion"

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Is "I cannot imagine a mechanism for X to happen, so X can never happen" a named logical fallacy?

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Rationalism and Catholicism / Protestantism

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What am I missing in texts that say things that are so obvious as to seem pointless?

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Why is belief necessary for justified true belief?

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Is circular reasoning always a fallacy?

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Is omniscience possible in a universe with quantum mechanics?

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How does somebody believe in anything out of science?

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Does epistemology = logic?

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What fallacy uses two different standards for comparisons?

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Is it a fallacy if someone claims they need an explanation for every word of your argument to the point where they don't understand common terms?

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Is symmetry real?

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Are there any well known academic philosophy forums?

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