Fundamental Uncertainty: A Book

Gordon Seidoh Worley
6 Feb 2022 18:49 UTC

I’m writing a book about fundamental uncertainty, aka the problem of the criterion. Here’s where I’m sticking the chapters as I work on them as posts in public.

Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Prelude

Gordon Seidoh Worley6 Feb 2022 2:26 UTC
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Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Chap­ter 1 - How can we know what’s true?

Gordon Seidoh Worley13 Aug 2023 18:55 UTC
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Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Chap­ter 2 - Why do words have mean­ing?

Gordon Seidoh Worley18 Apr 2022 20:54 UTC
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Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Chap­ter 3 - Why don’t we agree on what’s right?

Gordon Seidoh Worley25 Jun 2022 17:50 UTC
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Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Chap­ter 4 - Why don’t we do what we think we should?

Gordon Seidoh Worley29 Aug 2022 19:25 UTC
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Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Chap­ter 5 - How do we know what we know?

Gordon Seidoh Worley28 Dec 2022 1:28 UTC
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Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Chap­ter 6 - How can we be cer­tain about the truth?

Gordon Seidoh Worley6 Mar 2023 13:52 UTC
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Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Chap­ter 7 - Why is truth use­ful?

Gordon Seidoh Worley30 Apr 2023 16:48 UTC
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Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Chap­ter 8 - When does fun­da­men­tal un­cer­tainty mat­ter?

Gordon Seidoh Worley26 Apr 2024 18:10 UTC
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Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Chap­ter 9 - How do we live with un­cer­tainty?

Gordon Seidoh Worley7 Nov 2024 18:15 UTC
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