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It struck me that badly-formulated philosophy can be compared a little to p-hacking: it doesn't derive its consistency from the need to adress a probl...

I suppose then that we simply disagree on this point. I'm firmly of the belief that every philosophy worth its salt has the kind of internal consisten...

Yeah, I didn't mean otherwise when I spoke of definitions. Regardless, I'm not sure it matters for the point at hand.

I believe the idea is that it is no longer part of the definition of number that it be a measure - which doesn't mean it can't be used for measuring.

I think you're missing the point though - what 'proves fruitful' is the choice made between two possible 'paths'. We're not talking about 'solving pro...

I disagree. While I think the whole symmetry-breaking story is a useful framing and pedagogic tool - I turn to it too, occasionally - I think it is a ...

Mm, I tried to stress the criteria of sufficiency earlier, but it's all but been ignored for most of this thread, unfortunately.

But I'm not talking about the problems of math. At least, not exclusively. So there's no good reason to make any such change. Further, among the point...

The literal point of the thread is that the math dictates nothing about the choices that must be made. The problems dictate the directions into which ...

@"Srap Tasmaner" - reflections on 'clickiness'...

Yet another way to think about it is that the OP asks a meta-level question about an object-level question that is missing... rendering the meta-level...

Yeah, not dealing with this kind of sophistry. Thanks for your interest.

It's always a question of how successful a philosophy is at measuring up to it's own motivations: a question of immanent critique. German Idealism fro...

But what I'd want to emphasise is the retroactive temporality at work here: a well-forged sense will always retroactively alter the conditions which g...

Exactly. The irony is that such relativism doesn't actually go far enough: 'better' only makes sense in relation to what a theory is trying to do; an ...

Not to put too fine a point on it, but treating these kinds of propositions as 'frames' is exactly the kind of mistake which I think must be avoided. ...

This too is unanswerable.

I suspect this whole conversation with T Clark reflects our lived environments. I'm half Asian and it's quite common for my family and friends to ackn...

Will reply to this more fully later (sleeeep now), but one thing I should have specified is that there is one place where truth does matter in all of ...

It's not sad at all. You don't judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree. If you do, you've misunderstood what a fish is - but that would be your pr...

Once circularity is admitted, the game is up. The question is a verbal Penrose staircase: http://www.daviddarling.info/images/Penrose_stairway.gif

... of?

Guessing what correctly though? Guessing the answer yes, but... to what? The question... which is... about the odds of guessing correctly. It's a weir...

There's no criterion for correctness, so there's no possible answer.

"Nothing is more painful than the spiteful jeremiads about the abstraction of philosophers and the little concern they show for explaining and giving ...

:grin: You ain't so bad yourself lady. But yeah, you're totally right to see Foucault all over that post. The idea is that universality is blind to po...

Not at all! One of the interesting things about the duck/rabbit is that the 'same' thing can give rise to a genuine novelty, depending on the way in w...

Universalism is tricky though - and it's tricky because it is such a particular strategy. The - let's call it - strategy of modernist universalism emb...

The appeal to 'humanity' is an attempt to level that which is not level: it is erasure, not justice. When cops get called when you're sleeping in a Ya...

Platitude.

But exactly how is this the 'real' danger? I mean, I know what the 'real danger' is, for the most part: it is POCs getting the cops called on them for...

This. Exactly this. The suspension of judgement is an explicitly depoliticizing manoeuvre: it breaks down a widespread, statistical phenomenon into in...

One day, people will remember current-day Isreal for the apartheid regime that it is, and our children will listen incredulously of the time where peo...

Hegel is a popular enemy. He's easy to turn into the 'bad guy' because he can so easily be shape-shifted into whatever or whoever you'd like. But I th...

Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics discusses it as well, and he rightly emphasises that the second clause of the PoSR is often and mistakenly lef...

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Of course it's true. Your OP is nothing but a series of moralising distinctions designed to affirm the vague and trivial notion that an understanding ...

There's not much here to take seriously. You're looking for a circle-jerk, nothing more.

Thing is, I agree that science is super important if you want to practice philosophy; but the kind of platitudinous posturing that you're engaged with...

Best to have let them go. They've clearly never had any feel for philosophy to begin with.

Darth is right that its only those who suffer from insecurity or inability concern themselves so much with trying to distinguish between 'actual' and ...

Fair enough, and I'll say no more about here.

Just to be clear, there is a good discussion to be had about the relationship between science and philosophy. There is no good discussion to be had ab...

:rofl:

Said every raving conspiracy theorist ever.

Mm, it's a simple concept, seemingly hard to grasp.

Hume's text stands on its own. That your two stated purposes are (1) affirming and pandering to your own preconceived view of Hume ('he was wrong'), a...

One alternative is that the existence - or not - of God is a non-issue, and that the question itself it not worth contemplating because it is a badly ...

It seems obvious that the solution is to drop the Platonism and with it the ridiculous extravagances of MWI, and so dissolve the 'problem' as sensical...