{"id":51,"date":"2005-06-09T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/logic\/"},"modified":"2005-06-09T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T20:04:00","slug":"logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/09\/logic\/","title":{"rendered":"Logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice article about dark energy by Rich Monastersky in the <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/\">Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a> this week, unfortunately only available to subscribers.  But I think it falls under fair-use doctrine for me to quote this one paragraph:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the space of seven years, the dark-energy revolution has rewritten textbook entries on how the universe operates and what will ultimately happen to the cosmos. Yet dark energy is a nebulous concept, one that has thus far flummoxed some of the smartest researchers on the planet. &#8220;The fundamental physics of dark energy is a complete mystery to us right now,&#8221; says Sean Carroll, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Chicago. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Now, strictly speaking, what the paragraph says is that the smartest researchers on the planet are flummoxed by this problem, and also that I am flummoxed by this problem.  So we cannot conclude, using the rigorous dictates of logic, that I am one of the smartest researchers on the planet.  But if we look beyond the surface to the subtle subtextual implications, I think the message is clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice article about dark energy by Rich Monastersky in the Chronicle of Higher Education this week, unfortunately only available to subscribers. But I think it falls under fair-use doctrine for me to quote this one paragraph: In the space of seven years, the dark-energy revolution has rewritten textbook entries on how the universe operates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}