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Epistemology is the theory of knowledge. It is the discipline that makes it clear what conditions one must meet if one is to have knowledge. Epistemology thus explains how it is that we can have knowledge of the future, the past, and the present but imperceptible. Epistemology also explains how we can have knowledge of truths that concern abstract entities, such as numbers and properties, as opposed to spatio-temporal entities.

Giving people straight welfare would actually shrink the state, since, when welfare is taken away from people who need it, fake jobs have to be manufactured for those same people. Probation officer jobs and intake coordinator jobs have to be "dummied up" as a way of funneling still-needed welfare dollars to them.

The truly important parts of economics without the usual fluff. Each point is followed by a brief multiple-choice quiz, ensuring that knowledge is sealed in.

It is established that moral relativism is false and it is thereby made clear what moral injunctions are and what the basis is for their legitimacy.

Technology destroys more jobs than it creates, and this is doubly true of AI. Everybody knows it, and we try to fight it by creating fake public sector jobs. The economy will grind to a halt, thanks to resulting bureaucratic bloat. So, it's time to admit that we need universal welfare. It's time to stop wasting our lives at fake dead-end jobs. Let's get out of the way of the few people who are actually making the economy work.

In this fictitious dialogue, it is said what an analytic truth is, and it is established that such truths exist.

It is clearly explained: what it is for a statement to be necessarily true, why necessity, possibility, existence, and non-existence are properties of propositions (truths and falsehoods), not of objects or states of affairs, and more.

In this briskly written volume, a case is made that a value is a belief as to how one live one's life if one's psychological architecture is to retain its integrity, and a case is thereby made that intention is an operationalized value. This analysis makes it possible to distinguish between minds that do and minds that do not host selves. (Selves are minds that have values; minds that are not selves do not.) The relationship between weakness of the will and self-deception is made clear, and it is explained how it is that one can knowingly act in self-destructive ways.

Is the Turing Test a good test of intelligence? This question is answered, and the answer is shown to be "no". John Searle's argument to this same effect is shown to be a model of philosophical impotence.

I conjecture that audiobooks can be enormously helpful to people with ADD/ADHD/Dyslexia and other such conditions. I believe that. "Audio Book therapy" - in other words, education that is based on audiobooks, as opposed to printed books - can boost the test scores of people with the aforementioned conditions. Further, I believe that such therapy can normalize the brain-activity of such people, this being provable, so I also conjecture, with the help of brain scans.

The nature and future of gene-editing is discussed. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Genome Editing in Human Embryos and learn about genetics.

I have figured out how to make money as a publisher of books and audiobooks. In the present work, I describe how I will to do so. In Section 1, I state the ideas underlying my business plan; and in Section 2, I state my business plan itself. The present work was submitted as a thesis to the Small Business Development Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

An analysis of Daniel Plainview, the main character in the movie There Will Be Blood, which is based on the novel Oil by Sinclair Lewis.

A book review is about the reviewer, not the book being reviewed.

A distinction is made between two kinds of mental impairments and, on the basis, between genuine psychosis and pseudo-psychosis.

Vegans self-identify as animals. So for them, consuming animal products is cannibalism, and that is why they don't consume such products.

It is concisely proved that time travel is not possible.

I describe how I will make money writing and producing audiobooks.

It is explained how rationality differs from intelligence and, on this basis, it is explained why it is that animals, though intelligent, are not rational.