For part 1 click here. (Warning: if you haven’t read part 1 yet then you should or part 2 won’t make much sense.) After thinking about the issue a bit more I decided there is a simpler and more elegant way to demonstrate that there is no incompatibility between the first premise of the kalam […]
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Efficient causes, final causes, and the creepiest song of the seventies
As a follow up to my recent discussion of final and efficient causes, I’d like to draw your attention to what is surely the creepiest song of the seventies: Tony Orlando singing “Knock three times.” The song tells the story of some lonely guy in a darkened apartment fantasizing about the girl upstairs. Apparently because […]
