Profound criticism 1: the logic is different
Many come up with criticisms like ‘Buddhist logics are different’ or ‘one has to follow Indian logics’. These criticisms sound profound! They are damn shallow, unless they answer the following…
Read moreIntellectual prowess of Michael Witzel
I would have liked to make the following points on the IER forum but either of the two moderators are (obviously) willing to be courteous enough to post my letter…
Read moreWhat makes one an intellectual?
Steve Farmer is not an expert on secularism only in the sense that he has followed it from the ‘outside’ (meaning, probably, he has not written anything about the issue…
Read moreCriticism: Are we living in barrenness?
I do not assume that, as you put it, “we are living in complete barrenness of thought but for the light which Balu has thrown.” One would be doing the…
Read moreFamily resemblances, language games, Wittgenstein, and debates on religion
Balagangadhara points out an inconsistent reasoning of the western and westernized Scholars, as well as the last 400 years of humanities scholarship. “Let me summarise the dilemma. Some properties are…
Read moreWhy people resist to think critically?
I have also come across expressions of similar thoughts and feelings both in India and in Europe and the United States. However, I think there are multiple grounds that generate…
Read moreExistential Questions
If we want to speak about the meaning of human existence, at least one condition has to be met: such an existence (from birth to death at least) must embody…
Read moreWhy Indian Secularists do not think but talk?
I want to go deeper into the claim of my earlier post that Shabnum Tejanis and Neera Chandhokes of this world do not think but merely talk. In other words,…
Read moreFoundationalism and Virtuous Circularity
You do not want to call our natural sciences as ‘knowledge’. I do not even mind that. (For instance, you might want to define ‘knowledge’ as ‘true and justified belief’.…
Read moreCriticism: you are a hindutvavaadin!
Consider the following possibility: let us assume that in some of my writings, I reach the same conclusion as some or another ideologue from Hindutva. (Of course, neither Steve Farmer…
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