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Thrifclyfe

['Member']Joined: March 25, 2018 at 01:25Last active: March 25, 2018 at 17:040 discussions17 comments
Location: Pragmatopia

Bio

Not a cat.

Favourite Philosopher

Russell, Mill, Popper.. Aristotle

Favourite Quotations

The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.

Comments

I thought the intention was to regard partisanship as biased.
March 25, 2018 at 05:32
"Thrif you make no sense" Not again..
March 25, 2018 at 04:58
When you apply terminal logic to terms, they inevitably become atomic and meaningless. Aquinas was a philosopher who was obsessed with education, and ...
March 25, 2018 at 04:21
Monism is the idea that all things are of the same substance. Difficulty arises when numbers are paired with physical events because the mind appears ...
March 25, 2018 at 04:01
Where are you going? Monism?
March 25, 2018 at 03:38
Theory bites the dust as soon as morality is proved to be separate from justice.
March 25, 2018 at 03:37
Morality is a statement of normativity so I'm not sure why I should necessarily care for other people.
March 25, 2018 at 03:36
Right. Science's refinement is a subject. I point to the fact humanity has found it useful as the truest marker because competing theories have yet fa...
March 25, 2018 at 03:33
In the case that truth is constructed, we can remedy this by rigorous scientific analysis. I adhere to a faintly positivist attitude that science is t...
March 25, 2018 at 03:14
It would probably rely on the concept of logic. Predicate, term, and propositional. Your objection is an objection of terms. This can be substituted e...
March 25, 2018 at 03:05
Hold on.. truth is regarded as a linguistic qualifier. I feel like terms are being misused here. What is metaphysically real is called so. Truth is a ...
March 25, 2018 at 02:59
That's illogical because science is continually reformed by philosophical models as necessary.
March 25, 2018 at 02:41
The positions have evolved quite recently in my mind, and they take four dimensions. Right-wing politics involves tradition, market, nation, and norma...
March 25, 2018 at 02:39
How about.. Scientism is an instrumentally doctrinal attitude of truth founded on both natural and modal principles.
March 25, 2018 at 02:28
I don't really dwell in articles, so please forgive me. But I can speak generally in that this is a historic topic, so you can arguably trace it back ...
March 25, 2018 at 02:23
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivist_epistemology ?
March 25, 2018 at 01:56
Pragmatist. I solve the problem by the inclusion of a fourth parameter: Knowledge is justified, unfalisfied, true belief. Gettier doesn't impress me. ...
March 25, 2018 at 01:30