Essays


Notes & Essays

Personal notes, essays, and reflections on various topics I’m exploring. These range from technical write-ups on data engineering to thoughts on classical texts and philosophy.




What is false cannot be true and what is true cannot be false, but every particular person has their opinion about things, opinions even absurd when examined. It is not that these opinions are unjustified or that the people holding them are stupid, far from it. You can see if one is to engage a …

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What is it to know? Is it to observe and reason about those aforementioned observations afterwards? If so, under what knowledge do we interpret that which is to be observed to reach that knowledge? Do we need yet another observation to formulate that prior knowledge for interpretation? Where does …

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If I were to ask how do we justify the idea that logic works for reaching truth, what would be a good answer ? would that answer be using logic ? would this not be circular ? as in the same way that I might say that a book content is true because the book says thus ? but it is even more severe than …

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