If we begin with Merriam-Webster, as you've done, then "Science is what scientists do as scientists" is filled out by our common-sense understanding o...
Yeah... but they are all of 10 dollars, and it's super nice to be able to pop rice into it then get started on your dish without having to think about...
:D This points out a pretty big difference between our understandings, at least. I'd say that the Oxford English Dictionary's philosophy of language r...
If you had a definition for "scientist" do you believe that the person who does not know what a scientist does will be able to identify scientists? Le...
Is it incoherent to say "Science is what scientists do, and what scientists do changes over time"? By the above criteria. You don't see Gassendi or Lu...
I think that the particular era of science will specify what makes a good guess, what would count as a check, and how one goes about sharing. In Newto...
So something I'm seeing in working through these guys today is that it's math pretty much beyond my ability. Not that it's surprising that a formaliza...
Link Which gets along a bit with Aristotle's notion -- that the distance between the audience and the subject is what allows a certain kind of pleasur...
That's pretty much what I believe, and yet the temptation to complete a system -- or to extend it -- is still there. Kant's claim to having set The Tr...
oof. Alas we can all be sweet summer children at one point... So, it's even worse than that! A group riding an economic wave because why not, when the...
No worries, it's nice to hear that others' have similar thoughts on something that seems pretty esoteric with respect to the usual issues. And I agree...
In terms of practices the bookkeeping is important: the reference to the same kinds of units so that methods and findings can be shared, for instance,...
How large scale are you thinking here? At a certain point I already admitted that the answer is simply no: states are larger than functioning anarchis...
No worries. I started this in the lounge once upon a time for the reason that I don't really understand science, and also know others here are scienti...
Science is a practice of bookkeeping guess work. But the only way to make that bookkeeping guess work worthwhile is through honesty, or perhaps anothe...
I'm afraid I don't share your optimism with respect to the powers that be. Hottest day on earth ever recorded happened this week. And I know that in s...
I like this from your quote: I think it gets along with my speculations Also gets along with my belief that Kant is the pinnacle of The Enlightenment:...
Implement life as we imagine it together, which can include some Enlightenment, as a treat :D -- though that'd be the same response to every imaginary...
I believe I did in defining philosophy as an anti-propaganda, at least. Propaganda is a virus, as you say, but philosophy is an anti-virus in that it ...
Oh, I like the idea of solving some of these problems, I suppose. Give me your wisdom, o lord! ;) :D Why Maslow? Is it true? I'd be on board with that...
Also, on philosophy: I think of it more of an anti-propaganda. Rather than giving easy answers to difficult questions it raises difficult questions wi...
Also, on Propaganda: I understand its necessity, but I like to imagine a world without it. In order to do so, though, there'd have to be some agreed u...
Preference is good in my opinion. Creative people usually have all kinds of preferences, and its in working together I've noticed that interesting thi...
After graduating with my chemistry degree something that dawned on me was how we already have every scientific bit of technology we need to address cl...
Because of its various failures, too: colonialism, racism, and the atom bomb come to mind. The ideas about appropriation of land and the need to civli...
https://youtu.be/9ciBTxQWT_o?si=24aE98po0A2hjs1g https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096251/ Technically I just finished it, but it was interesting enough t...
Yeah, I like the enlightenment in a general sense. It's not like I pine for religious institutions to be in charge again, and the enlightenment helped...
I mean every philosophy carries the seeds of its own destruction just by being philosophy :D -- no surprise. (EDIT: Well, maybe a small surprise given...
Yeah, but there's a but, but it goes into a digression on the differences between science and history which I'm guessing would diverge the thread from...
In history I'd call this "cherry-picking" -- he says this in some context at some point, but what else did he say? What else did he do? We definitely ...
No. Though any other activist would do the job just as well, and I reached for King because he's familiar and a person who, no matter what we say here...
Oh, the easy questions, eh? :D Maybe I should say: I don't believe, at present, we can science our way into future social organizations, and I'm skept...
Well, here's where we can get critical of ourselves and maybe don't realize what it is what we are doing. So the dialectic plays no role in my doing, ...
My view is that you can't science your way into future social organizations -- I think it's the scientific claim of Marx's that fails. Though it descr...
Oh no. It's not that central to my thinking. Mostly cause me a headache :D -- it's more that it's so undeniable to Marx's philosophy that it's somethi...
I think the question about thermodynamics and value is to ask: How are is and ought connected? And this also highlights a difference in our approach: ...
Could another set of dichotomies emerge? What I'm noticing from the primer on hierarchies is that it's a descriptive venture. It's purpose is to model...
This is nice to think against, and I had a thought this morning about just accepting the principle of explosion as an outcome, but one which is someho...
I'm excited for your thoughts on the unfinished product. These are open metaphysical questions; I have no doubt on that. If you could do more than ske...
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