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From the days of Plato, here's what philosophers have said knowledge is: "Justified True Belief" Interesting that such a jumble of ideas connect to create a fairly solid place to stand. (Since the 60's, Plato's formulation has apparently come under fire, but let's just stick with that one idea for a moment.) Simply stated, knowledge …
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Life is hard. There are winners and losers in real time. When competing for jobs, someone doesn't get hired. When applying for colleges and grad schools, someone doesn't get in. When vying for federal funding, someone loses out. When applying for mortgage loans, somebody doesn't qualify. When plays get submitted to theatres, some are produced, …
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This morning, I'm not writing about what I said I was going to write about. Instead, I offer you, hot off the presses of my experience, a case study...an experience in knowing. Years ago, I was tasked with writing a personal credo, and it began with the words, "We are not alone." And yet, loneliness …
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When healing happens, what (or who) exactly, is in charge of the healing? Years ago, in Bill Moyers' 1993 publication Healing and the Mind, I came across an interview with Dr. Candace Pert in which she makes a stunning claim. She told Moyers that in multiple personality disorders, it could be shown that within the same …
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In August 1966, I was seven years old heading into second grade. My memory of the guy that went up into the tower at the University of Texas to kill a bunch of people is vague, but it's there. Turns out, according to David Eagleman's Atlantic Monthly article "The Brain on Trial", Charles Whitman knew …
JEFF BERRYMAN 