Leontiskos

Yes. Imagine what you did <here>, but multiplied over twenty pages and then combined with hypocrisy. It was a truly impressive display of sophistry. :...

If one wants to improve the quality of thought on the forum, I think the easiest way is to impose posting limits (see for example, 6). This is arguabl...

For the realist realism is not merely a framework; and for the solipsist solipsism is not merely a framework. To say "both" would require the adherent...

By calling it a "framework" I think we are already presupposing that it is contextualized, aren't we? I think realism presupposes that not every knowl...

Oh, that's an interesting claim. I will have to come back to this, but you said you agreed with Srap, and he clearly takes history to be a social scie...

Yes. I think it is a kind of preaching, which is why it is so resistant to argument, exchange, objections, questions, accurate representation, etc. Pr...

Sure, and neither would I. I think this is because of the difference between receiving and doing that I pointed out. Your word "suffer" is similarly p...

Okay, but isn't history a "soft science"? If so, then by your own concession history must be just as scientific as any other science. And yet you've s...

has argued over a number of posts that the soft sciences or social sciences are also sciences. What do you make of those arguments?

Okay, well that is certainly an argument. :up: So I have never heard of a university with a science department. "What are you studying?" "Science." "H...

I think you've hit it. Especially in the context of @"Banno"'s recent attacks on religion, his accusations of authoritarianism, the growing acknowledg...

I offered what I see as a non-question-begging way to approach the question <here>. Consider now another. What does @"J" want? My guess is that if you...

:up: Or more generally, "A passion is an action?" A feeling is generally seen as something that happens to us, whereas an activity is generally seen a...

When there is an impasse such as this, I would say that what is needed are formal arguments, with explicit premises and conclusions. That's why I have...

No, it's really not close at all, beginning with the idea that human nature is the ability to understand the world from someone else's perspective. I ...

Well they have something in common and they have something that is different. The question is whether the difference excludes historical study from be...

:lol: The Analytic is analytic. He is a knife: he cuts. He is very good at dividing, separating. He is not good at ...really anything else. So yes, he...

I.e. echo chambers, for people who refuse to engage those on the open forum who question their positions and suggest that they might be wrong. I think...

@"Jamal", I would prefer that the thread stay open. Banno keeps making his bed. Why not let him sleep in it? <Here> is his newest iteration; his newes...

Okay, thanks. Do all people make non-hypothetical ought-judgments? I wouldn't try to justify some to someone who doesn't see that they are already mak...

The irony, as I have pointed out before, is that this thread is rooted in a self-contradictory moral accusation. It says, “It is morally impermissible...

Consider a story You see a thread about two different ways to do philosophy. Looking closer, you find that the subtext reads, "The right way to do phi...

Much like your strange claim that I was concerned with pseudoscience in this thread, this claim is similarly lacking in accuracy. None of the posts yo...

(See also ) I think that's nonsense. From your very first post you've had a biased read on the whole discussion. The strawmen you've relied on and you...

It's . I mostly agree, but I would say that Analytics do hold to a standard of consistency. Hence the between two self-described dissectors in the thr...

Yes, and we certainly cannot know that we are playing the same language game as someone else.

I think the work you did can be utilized elsewhere, which is why I keep bringing it up. Don't we all agree that data should not be falsified? How did ...

Right. :up: I agree. I've been pondering misology, and the way that the passions can hijack the reason. For example, if someone wants to never admit t...

I just find it odd to separate scientific study from historical study. This bears on the discussion of "scientificity" from <another thread>.

I think that's right. Those darn sirens. :smile:

There is simply no argument here to the effect that "science" and history have no common thread. We can say that "science" and history have a common t...

Yes, "I believe there is an overarching standard absolutely precluding contextlessness, but I could be wrong." So @"J" believes in an overarching stan...

It seems to me that no one in the thread is claiming such a thing, but you anticipate this objection: First I think it is quite important to note the ...

You're welcome to say "I don't know" when presented with ' question about whether all narratives are equal or some narratives are unequal. But if you ...

Here is how I would approach the topic. First, read to Banno, beginning with the words, "I concede..." What I do there is identify a common aim that B...

Sort of. It's asking if there is a common thread between the two paradigms, given that each paradigm is made up of many different strands.

Understood. Okay. I suppose I can see how that recognition has leverage with respect to the central question, namely insofar as the premise which says...

No worries. :lol: Yes, I added this in an edit: I see the pseudoscience question that @"Count Timothy von Icarus" has raised as an analogy for somethi...

That's sort of your answer to everything. You very seldom give reasons or arguments for your positions. That's a problem when you're on a philosophy f...

One way we improve is by identifying mistakes and then resolving to change. What do you see as your mistake in this instance? What is the thing you wi...

A book that might help, "Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly." More simply, Aristotle's advice would be to identify people who you believe make ...

To be clear, "some" = "one."

It sounds like you're an investor with some initial capital and you're looking to improve your lot. "Maybe I should move to Kansas City. Hmm..." Again...

Good. This is almost exactly Aristotle's argument for the PNC in Metaphysics IV. "You are welcome to deny the PNC, so long as you never speak or use l...

Because one or two folks are denying it. Even their simple claim, "You are bound to not-bind people," is self-contradictory.

(My internet cut at <this post>, so this reply is directed to what came before.) I’m not sure about your premise, but either way I think the condition...

@"Srap Tasmaner": Although it may sound partisan, the simple fact of the matter is that @"Banno" and @"J" have been trying to chastise a certain moral...

May she rest in peace. :flower:

Yeah, I think we're falling into Enlightenment categories. I don't think anyone here favors Enlightenment rationality (except perhaps when @"J" channe...

Why do you think that? The problem is that the "contextualists" presumably do not see their position as precluding realism.