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Wars of religion never existed

Wars of religion never existed Wars of religion are wars of politics where the label to differentiate the parties is religious.

Voluntarismo es engañarse

Voluntarismo es engañarse El peor invento del segundo milenio: voluntarismo: creer que la parte del espíritu que conecta más a lo real es la voluntad; no la razón.

Man against human specie

Ways the man can go against its own specie: warfare; destroying his environment; choosing not to reproduce

Two sources of Wealth

In economics textbooks there are three sources of wealth: land; work and capital. But they are actually two: energy and information

Vida interior es recomenzar

Vida interior es recomenzar

Vida interior es recomenzar No es que en la vida interior “haga falta” recomenzar muchas veces. Es que la vida interior “es” (consiste en) recomenzar.

Should we look for knowledge or certainty

Deduction (steping on previous truths and making an inference) is the only way to be certain of a proposition. But certainty is not the same as knowledge.
Induction, on the other hand, is the proposal of a general principle, based on the regularity of a some observations.
Deduction (the use of logic) makes me very certain, but adds very little knowledge to me: the deducted truth is already into the previous ones (the premises).
Induction let me jump on completely new truths. But, who can guarantee that “swans are white” just because all that I have seen, happen to be white? Induction gives me joy of novelty, but, seldom, the comfort of certainty.
The moral of this story is: knowledge, as any human growth operation (like love, or virtue) can on be achieved “dialectically”, zigzaging between opposites. Forget about finding an optimun.