Monthly Archives: October, 2011
Reflections on Rajiv Malhotra’s Being Different
Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism is a scholarly book from the keyboard of Mr. Rajiv Malhotra. Malhotra has had an unusually rich and influential career: With a background in science and after a successful business venture, he turned his interests to culture, history, and the power of knowledge manipulation in the politics …
Three Kinds of Propostions
Propositions may be put under three categories: 1. Provable statements. These are propositions whose actual or probable truth value may be ascertained through logic, observation, experiments, etc. The sciences and a good deal of normal discourse consist mostly of provable propositions. 2. Disprovable absurdities. These are trivial or imaginary assertions which can be disproved by …
