{"id":2949,"date":"2011-02-25T04:54:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T12:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/6f8538c0cfce9f39"},"modified":"2011-03-03T23:50:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T07:50:47","slug":"the-tragedy-of-the-apophatic-just-to-show-that-to-nerds-things-that-dont-have-a-name-dont-appear-to-exist-same-problem-1-fail-to-understand-uncertainty-2-cannot-connect-dots-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/the-tragedy-of-the-apophatic-just-to-show-that-to-nerds-things-that-dont-have-a-name-dont-appear-to-exist-same-problem-1-fail-to-understand-uncertainty-2-cannot-connect-dots-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The TRAGEDY OF THE APOPHATIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TRAGEDY OF THE APOPHATIC. Just to show that to nerds things that don&#8217;t have a name don&#8217;t appear to exist &#8211; &amp; same problem 1) fail to understand uncertainty, 2) cannot connect dots, 3) cannot understand religion (what they don&#8217;t see doesn&#8217;t exist) and, from 3,  4) fall for the problem of induction\/ confirmation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10150115075073375&amp;set=a.10150109720973375.279515.13012333374\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc6\/185667_10150115075073375_13012333374_6389874_7432544_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TRAGEDY OF THE APOPHATIC. Just to show that to nerds things that don&#039;t have a name don&#039;t appear to exist &#8211; &amp; same problem 1) fail to understand uncertainty, 2) cannot connect dots, 3) cannot understand religion (what they don&#039;t see &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds","category-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2964,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}