Wittgenstein

I will get back to you with more examples of science undergoing a paradigm shift and removing fundamental axioms or assumptions that were taken for gr...

Thank God. Someone understands my point here finally. I was going to lose my mind and l was beginning to think whether l was spewing complete garbage.

I think it is possible to think about the methods and obstacles that are present when one is using critical thinking and after reflecting on it. The w...

You should read Thomas Kuhn, a philosopher who argued for the presence of dogma in science. :smile:

You don't have to but we were using the same word differently. Btw, don't you sense the deep irony hmm :sad:

How about the example l gave before and l will quote again.It was a matter which could not be decided on basis of evidence and a lot of other problems...

I am here.

Can dogma exist in an absolute form and encompass knowledge totally. I think that would be an exaggeration. People can have fundamental dogmatic belie...

Sure, so far l have only checked his falsification principle in science and he does seem to engage in a meta epistemic study. Recently l had a discuss...

It can make sense, as l explained here.

I don't speak for him but l think there is some truth to it. The tools we use can only be applied to something other than themselves. If we try to imp...

In that case, a certain amount of dogma is absolutely necessary in order for a person to gain knowledge of the subject before applying critical thinki...

Critical thinking is largely absent from the cultural paradigm. If everyone was busy in such an act, it would be impossible to differentiate the creat...

It does, surely.

The collective good is never a moral aspiration of the highest order. Renouncing this world is one of the steps ascetics undergo. I don't think we eve...

--- Noam Chomsky

Consumerism is one of the terrible products of materialism. I understand the way you used the term self-interest but consumerism doesn't even allow su...

In my understanding of the morality given to us by Abrahamic religions. A lot of the matters that involve morality are in fact left to our own conscio...

I regard all Marxists professors who live in capitalist states and do not even attempt to move to a place where their world view is in practice to be ...

The act of asceticism is in essence separating oneself from the percieved collective good and being free from the desires of the carnal self in any fo...

You can disagree but as far as l have understood, Marxism is a theory and communism is the final product of Marxism. Communism does not always fail bu...

Although marxism aims to liberate human beings, particularly the working class from worrying about the basic neccessities of life and depending on an ...

Marxists do not favour hedonism but they cannot be in any way ascetic as they lack the element of freedom despite refraining from sensual pleasures. F...

One of the most difficult aspect of asceticism is describing it. It can only be lived and experienced. Whatever Buddha or any ascetic says will always...

Thanks for pointing it out and Yes. By materialism, l meant to imply a hedonistic viewpoint of life. However l still believe that a hedonist and a mat...

If someone came up to me and presented a proof that 1=2, l would immediately discard the proof. The OP obviously didn't present something that ridicul...

Sure, if you take Cantor and OP. If you take the countless mathematicians on one hand and OP on other hand, the outcome isn't that favourable. :wink:

That's what this should be about. Either all the mathematicians since Cantor have been idiots and retarded to not notice the fatal flaw in the proof o...

The set of real numbers is uncountable, and by uncountable we mean that we cannot establish 1-1 correspondence with the set of natural numbers. You ca...

It doesn't really matter, why should our species continue to survive in the future and why should we believe that our planet will survive the future ?...

That's generally a difficult question to answer but with respect to the past, an observer is required. As far as the present world is concerned, we ca...

I think the modern QFT does not use dirac sea as positrons are good for describing why the universe does not show an excess of negative charge. Beside...

I think the modern QFT does not use dirac sea as positrons are good for describing why the universe does not show an excess of negative charge. Beside...

So in a universe with time, all changes would be detectable. Hence time puts a constraint on change, all changes now depends on time. But you mention ...

Your summary of the contemporary viewpoint of time in science is quite impressive and accurate as far as my knowledge is concerned. To get to your big...

In a way, yes. Since the past is captured by objects that existed before the present like the light from the stars that have died and don't exist anym...

That's a nice way of describing the progression of the argument. Let's suppose God could see a static universe with nothing around it in that dimensio...

It's easy to see the existence of time without a sense to detect change. Change in of itself is meaningless as it has to be detected by someone.Consid...

That's the point. The question about the content of a statement is irrelevant with regards to the logic of truth conditions. Other than that, we have ...

Weed and philosophy go together like oreos and milk or in case you are english, like biscuits and tea. :wink:

One of the simplest yet conclusive definition of truth comes from Tarski. Based on this definition, we can tell the truth conditions for all statement...

I was merely pointing out that your approach to linking violations of other rights such as right to life to hate speech by insisting on statistics or ...

There is a paradox of freedom. Basically, freedom in it's absolute sense may create environment or a society which restricts other freedoms. So to adv...

The set of natural numbers does not have an upper bound, so it will always have a number that is smaller than another number. In other words, there is...

The situation is bad.

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Infinity doesn't exist as a number but a concept and l think even the concept has faults.

In maths, how would you interpret limits that do not exist to those that exist. For example, lim x-->o ( 1/x )does not exist but lim x--> 1 ( x-1/x^2-...

If l say, l have taken 100 steps, l am using the word "steps" in a different sense, to mean a numerical quantity. When l say infinite number of steps,...

The movement now is directionless and it is more about causing riots, l don't see how any western country would defend public vandalism and use of ars...