Cool. I think this speaks to a lot of underlying disagreement, where I was more than happy to agree with some of your conclusions -- because now I thi...
This strikes me as at odds with your expression that violence is impotence, that power brings about circumstances where people do as you will and viol...
Let's try stripping out the moral language then and speak more descriptively. Rather than "leach" let us say "parasite" -- and what is a parasite? An ...
Seems a different sort of question than the titular question :D. I don't think they are separable, even in matters of fact, as you put it. So there's ...
Then I'd like to posit that what I understand of @"unenlightened" and yourself are not so much at odds with one another, at least at first blush. If v...
My dear friend always said that politics begins the moment you have people together, because whenever people come together there are power relations b...
I think I agree with @"Wayfarer"'s characterization -- Which is to say that my instinct is to say there is no feeling to knowledge. My feeling says th...
You're not wrong. After all if you believe there is a root cause to many problems, what else would you do other than act to make a complete reform of ...
I'd say that this is an impoverished view of anarchism. Anarchists are against both state and capital because they are against hierarchies -- it is a ...
I have often wondered about your notions of identity. And I think I begin to understand it here when you would rather substitute(is that the right wor...
I may have linked this paper once before. I don't remember. But I thought you'd find it interesting @"unenlightened" -- it seems to get along with wha...
True. What do you think of the broader definition of science with this consideration? That basically all empirical thinking is a kind of scientific th...
Fair enough. I thought maybe I was missing something :D. I don't think scientism is a testable "theory", and I don't think we have to define science b...
A thought I had today: What if scientism is more how one comes to believe a scientific proposition? Rather than just classifying what is or isn't scie...
Alright so you're just saying if someone states that a scientific theory is infallible then that is an example of scientism. I don't think Dawkins mad...
OK, I understand you better now. What does this notion of testability do for our understanding of scientism? Or is it more a matter of evaluating the ...
Those all seem very different to me. I would agree that if we say something is true just because a scientist says it's true that that seems to be a so...
Well it's definitely different from say chemistry or physics. There isn't a lab where we isolate variables or some such. But I'd say that evolution ma...
It would mean that the propositions of a theory are true. I'd also qualify that any proposition could actually be false. That's part of the whole kit ...
The way I read you was with an emphasis on proof rather than truth. I think I'd say I believe "X" because there is evidence that supports it implies t...
That doesn't follow at all. I believe "X" because there is evidence that supports it does not imply that evidence proves "X" is true. Is it scientism ...
Is the answer just a google search away? That seems odd to me. At least it's unconvincing for myself because, supposing a google search finds me an ex...
Sure. We're in agreement about the value of things which are not-science, then. But I would at least say that while of course you can double down on y...
I think you missed a "not" my statement. I said the opposite of what you're responding to here. Granted it was a confusing way of wording things, but ...
Of course. To say that their knowledge is not-scientific is not the same as to say that their knowledge is not-valuable. In fact, in terms of our day-...
So, to yourself, science is knowledge plus the beliefs which could become knowledge should they withstand the test of falsifiability -- and if somethi...
Well we can set aside our disagreement on Popper for the moment, I think. Another time perhaps. Would you say that the methods of a plumber, a machine...
First I just want to say that what you're replying to was directed at @"Terrapin Station" -- not that you aren't welcome to answer the question, but t...
I'm afraid I do not believe what Karl Popper believed about science. And if that be the case then whether or not mathematics is grouped with science d...
I'm guessing the reverse would be that having these qualities makes something science, in the broad sense you espouse. But I'd say the emphasis on obs...
For my reasoning -- The examples you provide aren't the sorts of things that scientists research. So if science is what scientists do then clearly per...
What is it that makes these activities not-scientific, in your view? I agree with the examples, but I suspect our disagreement is the reasoning behind...
Cool. I pretty much agree with him. But perhaps it is the example that's in the way. Let me try this question out -- is there any practiced field, lik...
Generally mathematics is grouped in with the sciences. But your point can be made at a less abstract level. Check out Massimo Pigliucci's Why Plumbing...
Are you interested in anyone besides Chomsky? The immediate counter-part to Nozick that comes to mind is John Rawls -- though he is not a left-liberta...
My contention is directed at: So my feeling and your feeling and the thermometer reading all exist. But calling these entities subjective or objective...
This is the paragraph where I begin to lose the plot. I gather that the first line of the quoted paragraph is the conclusion you are arguing for. Am I...
It may seem off, but I have a question for you and I believe it relates to your topic "on the next step" so to speak. To what extent do you group rati...
I probably haven't said much, no. :D Only attempted to answer your question. We can have new rituals by doing something new, and that doing is both re...
I'd say that new rituals arise just by doing them -- at least that's what I was trying to get at. It's as simple as finding meaning in the world and d...
It seems to me that a ritual, while often reliant upon tradition, need not be motivated by tradition -- how else did our rituals come about in the fir...
Yes, in a sense. But not just coping like it's a cure. I think I've mentioned this analogy before, but think of diabetes. There is no cure for diabete...
Well I think I've mentioned that I've been diagnosed with depression before. And those sorts of thoughts are just a part of my life. They come in wave...
Philosophically it sounds like you're asking after the nature of identity. But I think your underlying question is: should I continue to see this man ...
Tying this all back to intuitinism -- it seems to me that there is an "aha!" moment when we read philosophy. It's like when we are able to see both th...
I'm just skimming this paper you linked, but I'd encourage you to look at it again with a different idea in mind tham relativism. I ran a quick search...
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