Only one part of the domain of knowledge, i.e. in Kantian lingo, "synthetic a posteriori", deals with the real, physical world. The other part, "synth...
Well, the fact "Whiteness doesn't help them at all" is probably what they experience as being "unfair". I guess that we already know what they really ...
Well, I think we all understand that it is a bit late in the game to start bug fixing. The multitude of layers of family ties that would need to be re...
Identifying with race and/or nationality are feeble substitutes for identifying with extended family and religion. Of course, for people who do not ha...
It is possible to discover the meaning of life in the ancient scriptures. But then again, it will only work for those who believe that it is possible....
Metaphysics is presuppositionism about the real, physical world. In Immanuel Kant's lingo, it would be "analytic a posteriori", which he resolutely ru...
Yes, falsificationism is just the core of the method. Pavlov's dog was also falsificationist. It is obvious that it was not enough for the dog to unde...
Agreed, that is obviously the core of it. Still, that is not enough: A scientific control is an experiment or observation designed to minimize the eff...
I like Nassim Taleb's rants on how statistics is being abused nowadays. They are a cautionary tale against brainless number crunching and phishing for...
Unfortunately, NY Times has a policy of endlessly nagging for readers to create a "free" account and give up lots of personally-identifying data, in o...
Idealized worlds necessarily have an abstract, Platonic nature, which are built from presuppositions only. You cannot investigate an idealized world w...
Well, as Aristotle wrote, if nothing is assumed then nothing can be concluded. Being critical about axioms almost always leads to infinite regress. Th...
Metaphysics study is conducted using deduction from that which is known a priori. Like foundational mathematics (which is sometimes considered a speci...
If we define metaphysics as "presuppositionalism", then automata theory, being clearly axiomatic, is in a sense, indeed, "presuppositionalist". By pre...
Concerning "discovering what actually exists", that is only a small part of the story. A good part of the world we live in, was purposely built like t...
Not sure. For example, if there is a rewrite rule "x/0 = ?" for x not zero, the symbol could start popping up in output expressions. If you feed that ...
If there is a match between a rewrite rule and an expression, you can rewrite the expression. So, it all depends on the rewrite rules of the system. T...
From the altercation between the Church and Martin Luther, the impression emerges that the Church is fundamentally an occult society that occasionally...
Yes, and mentioning the issue "unique readability" forcibly drags the entire, seemingly endless field of formal language and therefore related automat...
Well, it's not that axiomatic theology cannot be done, or even that it would not work: Principles of Islamic jurisprudence, also known as U??l al-fiqh...
One reason why the Papacy rejected Martin Luther's epistemic defense at his trial, in which he wanted to review the arguments mechanically, "through s...
You will find comments about unique readability, similar to mine at math.stackexchange.com. Unique readability plays a role in model theory, but it pl...
Well, when you first need several billions of dollars to build a particle accelerator of sorts, then you will probably not see much spontaneous innova...
In "The logic of risk taking", Nassim Taleb says something very similar: Who is “You”? Let us return to the notion of “tribe” of Chapter x. The defect...
Not only! If your statement correctly parses into two different syntax trees, then it almost always has two different interpretations. Greek and Roman...
Morality is either properly reductionist, i.e. axiomatic, or else, invariably subject to infinite regress. As Aristotle wrote, "If nothing is assumed,...
It is probably more related to what Linus Torvalds quipped: "Talk is cheap. Show me the code." In that kind of context, Linus demands that you do some...
Welcome to the real world. Not reining it in, is even a worse approach. In all practical terms, what is a Libyan supposed to do now that he has been "...
In the section, formation rules, of the wiki page on first-order logic, you can see how they quickly gloss over a glaring issue in the current practic...
How? So, say that we get rid of Khadaffi. No problem. We just cut out the middle man. Then, what happens next? The Second Libyan Civil War is an ongoi...
Because in the Christian-Lebanese political view, there are no fanatical radicals in Hezbollah. They do not exist in the whole of Shia Islam, includin...
There exist successful strategies that rein in the excess power of the State. A first solution is to first and foremost direct the individual's loyalt...
It is always possible to conjecture a link between everything and everything else. For example, scientific racists brandish selective IQ tests to supp...
In the Persian Gulf states, the majority of the Salafis reside in Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. 46.87 per cent of Qataris and 44.8 pe...
I looked up the definition first: Reductionism is any of several related philosophical ideas regarding the associations between phenomena which can be...
A beautiful object tends to acts like a Schelling point. When you are in the middle of nowhere, and you don't particularly know where you are going ei...
Trade does not even exist outside a "perimeter" of lowered aggression and violence. Biological life does not "trade" in the wild. Everything in nature...
How it works for me, is like this. In my professional life, I quite often have had to deal with other people's code, especially, when I was contractin...
Well, yeah, we are waiting for someone to show that another solution would be viable. In the meanwhile, I indeed think that it is in our own interest ...
It is the number one instrument currently in use for that purpose. It amounts to circling the wagons, so that the level of violence inside the perimet...
When you trade, you need to give in return something of sufficient value to the other person. It is often cheaper to attack him and confiscate what yo...
You may want to treat the test report as a witness deposition in the historical method, to be corroborated with other witness depositions. I think tha...
O sorry, you are right. He is still there. He must have paperwork problems with Satan's immigration office. They will let him through some day. They a...
Constraining the fundamentally violent nature of life, is actually a feat in civilization. Resource gathering is territorialist. This is "my plot of l...
Another search term yields some more interesting results: how widespread is scientism? The Folly of Scientism. A forthright expression of this viewpoi...
Let's check what the top search results are for e.g. "I believe in science". Why I Don’t “Believe” in “Science”. or some years now, one of the left’s ...
Most generally, axioms are arbitrary: These terms and axioms may either be arbitrarily defined and constructed or else be conceived according to a mod...
If you look at the footnotes in the page on the philosophy of engineering, you will see a good number of books on the subject. So, you can safely say ...
Quoting a philosopher does not mean that your answer is correct because of that. It only means that you subscribe to a particular school of thought. F...
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