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I don't recall basing any claim on things we don't know about the universe. Could you be specific? It seems that you're the one relying on what we do ...
July 22, 2018 at 15:52
Is it false to say that what motivates a scientist may not be what motivates those funding her research? Based on personal experience, I would say not...
July 22, 2018 at 15:13
How we frame things for funding purposes is not evidence for our personal motivations. Thales could not have predicted a solar eclipse without assumin...
July 22, 2018 at 01:25
A few observations. First, time neither exists as such outside of the mind, nor is it a mental fiction. Aristotle was dead-on when he defined time as ...
July 22, 2018 at 01:06
Of course this is meaningless in the absence of a definition of "real truth" as opposed to faux truth. Fr me, truth is the adequacy of what is inthe i...
July 21, 2018 at 19:50
This is a fallacious. It assumes that God could know, independently of actually creating, what free-will creatures would choose. This requires that fr...
July 21, 2018 at 19:05
I am an Aristotelian. 1. I reject the correspondence view of truth. a. While it works in many cases, it is flawed. Nothing corresponds to universal id...
July 21, 2018 at 18:03
I wonder what so obligates you? I see no need for Platonic forms, only several concrete objects able to evoke the same concept. This gives our concept...
July 21, 2018 at 16:41
"That's pragmatism for you. It's why science has turned to prediction as its MO rather than truth. Prediction is useful, truth is just interesting ......
July 21, 2018 at 16:33