In troubling times, it is the uncertainty itself that seems to burden us the most. We wish, more than anything, that we could just know what will happen. Even if…

Belief is a word that conjures religious connotations, whether good or bad. We think of faith-like belief as what is always being tested by the trials of life, yet something…

Giles Deleuze defines a philosopher as a creator of concepts. The philosopher creates ideas which help us to understand and act effectively and meaningfully in our lives. The philosopher may…

Our intuition about truth is based partly on our familiarity with our experiences. On the level at which we experience the world is typically what we are most inclined to…

If we want to create a theory of truth or a method of reaching truth, we must be able to define it with our own subjectivity in mind. What good…

We’ve probably heard “being emotional” as a criticism of someone’s argument and reason as a boon to seeking truth. Although we know the feeling of regret from actions taken under…

In our lifetimes of education, whether in school or on our own, we contend with the desire to improve our intelligence. We have a tendency to begin by remembering facts,…

One of the biggest components of what we call the human intellect is the recognition that one’s senses can be deceived—that we are not seeing the whole truth, and that…

Mental imagery requires perception. We cannot think of something if it has never been represented in something perceivable. We think via the track that memories of what an object has…

Language is a useful tool for allowing us to think through many more subjects and ideas and take our thoughts down many more paths than before. Language has allowed us…