Tag Archives: symbolic logic

We Are Open Source

Posted on March 8, 2017 by ehurst

If there’s one thing we affirm and embrace from the nascent Networked Civilization, it is the ethics of Open Source. I’ve already stated quite bluntly that I don’t support the legal concept of copyright and intellectual property because I’m convinced … Continue reading →

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More on Heart Logic

Posted on October 6, 2016 by ehurst

What happens when you have a vested interest in the outcome of a study or experiment? Perhaps you’ve heard that a lot published science turns out bogus. The explanation includes an awfully large burden on academic researchers to publish. Even … Continue reading →

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Heart-led Parables

Posted on May 24, 2016 by ehurst

Our mysticism is not as their mysticism. One of the most confusing things we deal with is a vast legacy of Western-style mysticism. The Western version remains cerebral; it does not target a heart-led understanding. Instead, there is some nebulous … Continue reading →

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Perfect Tense

Posted on March 3, 2016 by ehurst

The ultimate power on this earth is the power to remain focused on the moral demands of the Spirit Realm. It’s not even a question of the ability to act on such a focus, but merely to keep that focus … Continue reading →

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Heaven, Hell and Here

Posted on August 28, 2015 by ehurst

This isn’t theology, as if God and His revelation could be subjected to human reason. This is doctrine in the sense of teaching that serves to characterize my limited understanding. Teaching is pulling down out of my heart the moral … Continue reading →

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Psalm 16

Posted on September 20, 2014 by ehurst

In the Hebrew mind, the highest good was shalom. More than simple absence of distress or conflict, it was much broader. Perhaps a better term would be “social stability” — a combination of salient factors working together to provide a … Continue reading →

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Job 41

Posted on May 24, 2014 by ehurst

If we haggle too much over what creature is marked by the nickname Leviathan, we would miss the point entirely here. Should we need something approaching a literal animal, a crocodile or any of the larger sea creatures seen from … Continue reading →

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ACBM: Forms of Logic

Posted on July 8, 2013 by ehurst

This is an exercise in drafting an explanation for the project. People who have taken courses in philosophy are familiar with at least the Aristotelian expressions of logic and so forth. They may be familiar with latter Western attempts to … Continue reading →

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ACBM: A Critical Element in Analysis

Posted on July 2, 2013 by ehurst

It’s not enough to simply translate some ancient tongue into a modern written language; you still have to deal with how language itself was used. During those years I spent reading both the ANE and Western classics of literature, I … Continue reading →

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Flavors of Reason

Posted on May 11, 2013 by ehurst

Western reasoning gets in the way of everything, even in ways we don’t realize. We can be smart enough to recognize when something needs only concrete logic. If you drop a rock on your foot, it will hurt; if you … Continue reading →

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