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Yes, the term consolation works better because it actually avoids some of the more heroin-like philosophies which offer a certain 'comfort' in the fac...

You'll need to define 'know' and 'how' It think before this question can get anywhere. Are we going to accept a model capable of prediction as being '...

I agree entirely, it is an act of philosophy to say that philosophy is dead, but I don't see this as any more contradictory than Wittgenstein's 'ladde...

I've had enough of this, if all you're going to do is spit bile, I've no interest in discussing with you. If this is the standard of debate exemplifie...

I heard an interview with Dan Dennett recently in which he argued that Philosophy nowadays should really contain none of these schools, that theism wa...

Oh yes, how could I have missed those gems. I'm wondering if the stock of abusive terms has been entirely used up yet, or if we have more to come... I...

Yes. Well as a child I could articulate it because I had learned how to talk. Where's this line of questioning going? It seems a bit random, some insi...

Yes, one of my favourites too, though I suspect for very different reasons. A little in poor taste.

Have you read the thread? I (and scientists typically associated with 'Scientism') have been labelled - vacuous, closed-minded, toxic, cancerous, disi...

So how does one critique a philosophy then? If there are countless understandings that must mean there's at least one for every person on the planet, ...

I don't think that's fair. The book 'The Grand Design', in which the "philosophy is dead" statement was made, goes on to explain Hawking how feels the...

Finally, an insightful response not filled with bitter resentment. I agree that the over application of Newtonian reductionism is a big problem. As is...

Right, so what does having an understanding of it look/feel like? I didn't ask how, I asked 'in what way', what constitutes the progress? Who's demand...

That's like saying the answer to the question "what is Idealism?" would just be "it's the name of a school of philosophy", end of discussion. I can gu...

So in addition to being vacuous, closed-minded, toxic, cancerous, disingenuous, infantile, barren, and ignorant, and I'm now also a troll?

Good start, so what would class as evidence that I had thought about or understood the specificities of philosophy, whilst maintaining an ability to r...

OK, so what classes as useful? If philosophical ideas are judged by their utility, then how are you deciding that (for example) the idea that science ...

You're making claims in the public domain though. You're not saying "for me, knowledge is of this, or that, sort" you're making a claim about what kno...

Whether to give a tithe to the poor might be an example, I'm not sure where this is leading, obviously you're not thinking I'd be unable to come up wi...

I can't work out if we're just talking past one another, or if you're simply unwilling to engage in any epistemological questioning. I'm not asking th...

Ah, back to this again. All my quotes are just nicked blindly from the Internet and (and you know this how? Oh yes, because I disagree with you, there...

"He then identifies intuition as the original phenomenon that leads to the concept of truth itself" - Introduction to 'The Theory of Intuition in Huss...

One can only be ignorant of a topic if it contains facts to be ignorant of. I cannot be ignorant about dragons because there are no facts about dragon...

I see, so you're not interested in answering the question, you just popped by to insult my intelligence, and then make an ad hominen argument that if ...

Question - how do those who dismiss Scientism pejoratively support their claim? Your answer - Well how do those who argue in favour of Scientism suppo...

So my posts about children's rights, free-will, consciousness, ethics, abortion, belief, responsibility politics... All somehow attempting to undermin...

Yeah, so still no actual argument then? Have you read my posts, or just presumed you know what I'm saying? I'm arguing that the theory of those accuse...

How beautifully self immunised. "What you're saying is meaningless and I don't even have to present an argument to support that because one cannot arg...

As I said, stuff you like = meaningful, stuff you disagree with = meaningless.

Did you not notice that I answered precisely the same question as was put to Quine with precisely the same answer, almost word-for-word? So in a post ...

From an interview with Willard Van Quine (1977): Interviewer: "What would you say were the main questions in philosophy?" Quine: "What is there, and h...

No, we just furiously type whatever we 'reckon' don't we?

So no actual argument then? Just repeating the same ostracising bullshit. What I say is meaningless because you don't agree with it, what says isn't m...

There's no apparent evidence that there's a God, does that justify a pejorative use of the term religious, the derision of any arguments to that effec...

Classic. "X doesn't agree with me, therefore he must have failed to understand my ideas". If you have an actual argument then make it. This is a forum...

So what does 'understand' mean in this context? How does one judge when one has 'understood' the human condition? In what way has, for example, Camus,...

So taking philosophy for example, what would be some of those aims?

Really? So what would you say their aim was?

The difference is that I've associated authority with a position I've attempted to explain. You just said that the point was untenable purely on the b...

I hope I don't offend you in this, it's not my intention, but I personally would get more out of the discussion if you could refrain from appealing to...

To put it another way, saying that there needs to be a movement demanding we do not kill for no reason is like having a movement advising that we eat ...

I don't think it's present in that form, but I don't think it's present in Christianity either, the crusades are pretty much proof of that. I think wh...

I did say "many consider" rather than claiming a universal truth, but I'm certainly one of those many people, as is Bertrand Russell, for example, so ...

That raises two questions ; Why do you think a belief that science can answer questions about, for example, morality is religious, but a belief that i...

Well, the headline question maybe. The main bulk of the investigation though was why the term was used pejoratively. I don't yet have a clear understa...

Roughly speaking I think that's true by definition. Science is the investigation of that which is objective. I think the only grey area might be, as Q...

My senses, translated into thoughts by my brain. The world; and I didn’t articulate it because I hadn't learned how to talk. I'm not sure where you're...

I'm not sure what point you are trying to make by that comparison. If Elle MacPherson said she didn't think people should read books they haven't writ...

I sympathise with the desire to filter new ideas by some heuristic, and if that rules out unremarkable physicists who wish to contribute to philosophi...

I don't know, I can think of a few footballers who do.