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 we consider knowledge is not only a mental exercise divorced from any practical implications, the problem is that when we come to see knowledge as such, as something neutral and has no bearing on the manner we live, we fall into cognitive traps that lead to us living a life that is not ours and โ€ฆ

Read more โ†’

Just as many interpretations can arise from empirical data, so are words and expressions have wildly different interpretations, and so are points have various ways to connect them. But certainly there are some ways that we deem more effective or more true than others, but it is not only that they do โ€ฆ

Read more โ†’

Love is not a mere feeling or passion, for feelings are reactive to events or demand a satisfaction such as reacting to an event with anger, or demanding sustenance when hungry. Passions are fleeting impulses that inflame and captivate the soul and decay as fast as they are kindled, but love is a โ€ฆ

Read more โ†’

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 โ€ฆ

Read more โ†’

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 โ€ฆ

Read more โ†’

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 โ€ฆ

Read more โ†’