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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...
August 10, 2019 at 07:25
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 ...
August 10, 2019 at 07:06
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...
August 10, 2019 at 06:40
Identifying with race and/or nationality are feeble substitutes for identifying with extended family and religion. Of course, for people who do not ha...
August 10, 2019 at 03:44
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....
August 10, 2019 at 02:57
Metaphysics is presuppositionism about the real, physical world. In Immanuel Kant's lingo, it would be "analytic a posteriori", which he resolutely ru...
August 09, 2019 at 15:25
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...
August 09, 2019 at 11:50
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...
August 09, 2019 at 10:30
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...
August 09, 2019 at 10:08
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...
August 08, 2019 at 06:59
Idealized worlds necessarily have an abstract, Platonic nature, which are built from presuppositions only. You cannot investigate an idealized world w...
August 08, 2019 at 03:51
Well, as Aristotle wrote, if nothing is assumed then nothing can be concluded. Being critical about axioms almost always leads to infinite regress. Th...
August 08, 2019 at 00:30
Metaphysics study is conducted using deduction from that which is known a priori. Like foundational mathematics (which is sometimes considered a speci...
August 07, 2019 at 23:45
If we define metaphysics as "presuppositionalism", then automata theory, being clearly axiomatic, is in a sense, indeed, "presuppositionalist". By pre...
August 07, 2019 at 22:50
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...
August 07, 2019 at 17:06
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 ...
August 07, 2019 at 11:55
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...
August 07, 2019 at 05:14
From the altercation between the Church and Martin Luther, the impression emerges that the Church is fundamentally an occult society that occasionally...
August 06, 2019 at 04:07
Yes, and mentioning the issue "unique readability" forcibly drags the entire, seemingly endless field of formal language and therefore related automat...
August 06, 2019 at 03:15
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...
August 06, 2019 at 02:02
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...
August 05, 2019 at 17:28
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...
August 05, 2019 at 16:59
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...
August 05, 2019 at 09:58
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...
August 05, 2019 at 09:22
Not only! If your statement correctly parses into two different syntax trees, then it almost always has two different interpretations. Greek and Roman...
August 05, 2019 at 02:11
Morality is either properly reductionist, i.e. axiomatic, or else, invariably subject to infinite regress. As Aristotle wrote, "If nothing is assumed,...
August 04, 2019 at 21:59
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...
August 04, 2019 at 20:51
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 "...
August 04, 2019 at 02:22
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...
August 04, 2019 at 02:02
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...
August 03, 2019 at 15:35
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...
August 03, 2019 at 13:34
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...
August 03, 2019 at 12:13
It is always possible to conjecture a link between everything and everything else. For example, scientific racists brandish selective IQ tests to supp...
August 03, 2019 at 11:27
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...
August 03, 2019 at 10:21
I looked up the definition first: Reductionism is any of several related philosophical ideas regarding the associations between phenomena which can be...
August 03, 2019 at 02:22
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...
August 03, 2019 at 01:36
Trade does not even exist outside a "perimeter" of lowered aggression and violence. Biological life does not "trade" in the wild. Everything in nature...
August 03, 2019 at 01:11
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...
August 02, 2019 at 15:50
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 ...
August 02, 2019 at 10:48
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...
August 02, 2019 at 03:07
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...
August 01, 2019 at 14:26
Maybe there is a need here to distinguish between "to know" and "to understand".
August 01, 2019 at 13:36
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...
August 01, 2019 at 13:26
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...
August 01, 2019 at 05:17
Constraining the fundamentally violent nature of life, is actually a feat in civilization. Resource gathering is territorialist. This is "my plot of l...
August 01, 2019 at 04:01
Another search term yields some more interesting results: how widespread is scientism? The Folly of Scientism. A forthright expression of this viewpoi...
August 01, 2019 at 02:07
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 ...
August 01, 2019 at 01:26
Most generally, axioms are arbitrary: These terms and axioms may either be arbitrarily defined and constructed or else be conceived according to a mod...
July 31, 2019 at 12:09
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 ...
July 31, 2019 at 11:53
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...
July 31, 2019 at 06:30