Tag Archives: Varia

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Bootstrapping and The Münchhausen Trilemma The Münchhausen Trilemma is a term used in epistemology to stress the impossibility to prove any truth even in the fields of logic and mathematics. The name Münchhausen Trilemma was coined by the German philosopher Hans Albert in 1968 in reference to a Trilemma of “dogmatism vs. infinite regress vs. psychologism” used by Karl Popper; it is a reference to the problem of “bootstrapping”, after the story of Baron Münchhausen, pulling himself and the...

A room with a view (personal)   After almost forty years in Lund, yours truly last year returned to the town where he was born and bred — Malmö. Living on the top floor of this grandiose building, next to The Magistrate’s Park, and with The Opera and The Municipal Art Gallery just across the street, always convinces me returning was a good decision …

 [embedded content] Yes, indeed, all the leaves are brown and the sky is grey, when I look outside my library windows. Although it’s more than thirty years now since I lived in California, on a day like this, I sure wish I was there again …

What we do in life echoes in eternity Courage is a capability to confront fear, as when in front of the powerful and mighty, not to step back, but stand up for one’s rights not to be humiliated or abused in any ways by the rich and powerful. Courage is to do the right thing in spite of danger and fear. To keep on even if opportunities to turn back are given. Like in the great stories. The ones where people have lots of chances of turning back — but don’t. As when Sir Nicholas Winton...

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