If I remember correctly, basically the Mu'tazilites lost to the Asharites and this was one of the reasons why the "Golden Age" of Islam, times when th...
I think nobody has a problem if someone is politically correct when talking about minorities. If someone sees this as a 'political lithurgy', that sho...
Hardly surprising. For example in my country 3/4 of the people belong to a church (vast majority of them to the Lutheran State Church), yet only 27% o...
I think someone will have a great time with empiracism. Shouldn't racism be empirically proven in our postmodern times? Or does it mean that empiricis...
Israel has learned basically that peace with Palestinians isn't a priority as: a) Similar wars with it's neighbours, like the Yom Kippur war, cannot h...
It works on the collective scale. Good education (along with good governance etc.) of a society or a nation makes it succeed in World that we have tod...
I agree. I would go further to argue the reason that 'reinventing' science from a different angle, be it the decolonization of science, indigenous sci...
Or our subjective interpretation would be so... because it (science) doesn't answer these kind of questions. After all, how can an objective methodolo...
Ok. Let's forget the silly campus political correctness as it obviously isn't any root cause for anything here (although for political correctness, it...
If the issue is the problem of talking past each other in a philosophical discussion and the issue isn't a misunderstanding, then it's simply not a de...
Really? You truly think that I have to be talking about America, or unless you don't know what I'm talking about? The article was in Helsingin Sanomat...
If the topic was (somehow) political correctness, then refuting it by Trump and global warming.. :roll: And anyway, I've been living in a country with...
(Yet you do notice that my example was about racism. Or the accusation of the university being racist. Not gender inequality or LGBTQ issues.) First q...
At least for higher education, I believe that the Humboldtian ideals: holistic combination of research and studies, freedom of scientific inquiry, fre...
Were you the one who said had problems with venn diagrams? Basically Ok, but you are implying that a) the group of some people that might behave (?) c...
Naturally animals that we define 'prey' are going to avoid or at least will keep a safe distance from animals that we define as 'predators'. It's very...
This is a very American attitude. Yep, free speach is just for appearances sake in reality. And this of course is one reason for the toxic and agressi...
Look for definitions of the words before you answer? Of course it can be sometimes really ignorance, but unfortunately a lot of words mean different t...
I think the underlying problem is much more the polarization of the political discourse and the lack of even trying to engage the other side. This cre...
I wonder how well Oswald Spengler would have used the ecocatastrophy/mass extinction argument in his 'Untergang des Abendlandes', had he written it hu...
Then the mistake is to think that we can reach 'an absolute objective view of reality'. We cannot do that. Yet denying 'absolute objective reality' su...
Well, many use 'science' and 'scientific' as an argument where it shouldn't be used. Scientism is the best example of this misuse or improper use of s...
Yes, everyone of us uses our own brain, so thus everything is subjective? Think about it this way: If one astronomer finds a supernova in the sky, but...
It's just like debate over 'cultural marxism', not much to do with actual marxists, the few there are. It doesn't have much to do with reality. Like, ...
Hmm... lets start with a definition of political correctness: Now if good manners were a subset of political correctness, then people would be against...
Biggest reason, not only reason. And in the example I was talking about, there are factors like homogenous and functioning training of teachers, a fun...
Why is World government seen as the answer? Is an extremely centralized authority global problems the answer? Has it been? Is it politically viable? I...
Who thinks so? As a Finn I think Russians are quite friendly people. And if you are a guest of a Russian, you are treated extremely well. The Russians...
Actually it did. We're now in the situation that the US and Russia don't have SO many nuclear weapons that they can literally destroy every city as th...
Education is a great equalizer indeed. So great, that even if one can argue that our intellectual abilities differ as does our abilities in sports, wh...
And you cannot ever make a physical measurement of a natural number like 2. As I've said earlier, every physical measurement is obviously an approxima...
Yet if you get people notice an issue with alarmist attitude of the World is ending in a decade, that doesn't mean that issue isn't true itself. But n...
I agree with Brett above. From the CV there given, I would say this guy is a career communications person. When he states as his academic career "twen...
Well, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter doesn't change how big or small a circle is. And I can point out what these two lengths ar...
Rank Amateur, Mathematics is a theoretical science. It's logic doesn't follow the limitations of making physical measurements. In fact, every physical...
Well, people should understand the difference with weather and climate. My point is that when people choose what they want to hear, you get an audienc...
This is absolutely crazy. Irrational numbers and transcendental numbers ARE NUMBERS. Pi is a number, it is a mathematical constant. It has an exact de...
How is it an approximation? Is to you the ratio of 1/3 an approximation? As when we write it with decimal numbers in our number system its (0,33333......
Fallism came and went in the South African university circles just like Occupy Wall Street movement in the US. Both aren't anymore active in a major w...
Is making a drawing computation? Of course, but I was talking about Mathematical constants. Now there are a lot of transcendental numbers that we simp...
I've stumbled into this with in economic and financial debate, the phenomenon of the existence of the so-called permabears. Now a permabear forecasts ...
Umm... geometry doesn't need calculus. You can draw geometry, you can draw a circle, you know. With geometry you already get the mathematical constant...
Why do you say this? Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. That definition defines Pi quite accurately from any other number. D...
Yet this isn't just about that the pedagogy isn't the best possible one and hence students are lagging behind. The paper, as other similar ones talkin...
My leftist friend, this shouldn't be anything new to you either. I'll try to give an example: Let's assume that there would be a new socio-economic mo...
Any human endeavour has it's societal aspects. I think that this is well explained by Kuhn's theories, yet Kuhn basically as a historian of science do...
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