
mathematician
, concert pianist
, logician, Taoist
philosopher, and magician
.
Born in Far Rockaway
, New York
, his first career (like Persi Diaconis
a generation later) was stage magic. He then earned a BSc from the University of Chicago
in 1955 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University
in 1959. He is one of many logicians to have studied under Alonzo Church
.
Born in Far Rockaway, New York, he showed musical talent, winning a gold medal in a piano competition when he was aged 12.
Why should I worry about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!
If it is really true that you cannot resist them, then you are not sinning of your own free will and hence (at least according to me) not sinning at all.
There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility."
From what little was known about the subject, insincerity itself was regarded as another form of psychosis but one which was exceedingly rare.
Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.
Of course the falsity of the fact that you believe it is red implies that you don't believe it is red. But this does not mean that you believe it is not red!
I believe that either Jupiter has life or it doesn't. But I neither believe that it does, nor do I believe that it doesn't.