I will use the term "religion" as a synonym for "spiritual beliefs" in this context. This ignores the issue that they may not be 100% one and the same...
Interesting. Concerning Quine's dogma one, "Analyticity and circularity", and "the notion of synonymy, which Quine holds as unexplained", I certainly ...
In that case, mathematics is also not valuable, because it is also not-scientific, and staunchly so. This kind of fake morality ("not-scientific knowl...
They may occasionally do some experimental testing. In fact, experimental testing is a systematic protocol in various supply chain situations. It is o...
As long as we clearly distinguish between hypothesis/conjecture (no experimental test available) and theory (experimentally testable), I am ok with th...
Well, at the highest level of epistemology, concerning the nature of science, or the nature of mathematics, or the nature of any knowledge field, real...
Theoretical discussions about possible scientific hypotheses have not yet managed to pass the unforgiving knowledge-justification filter in science. T...
Ahum, correction! Mathematics was possibly somehow grouped in with sciences. You see, the easy part is reading the classics, but the hard part is to k...
Agreed. Scientism points to the fact that science badly lacks humility. That is a fundamental problem. The scientific method does not allow them to kn...
Well, since the scientific method cannot possibly discover any truths about itself, how would it be able to discover the complete truth? While mathema...
Through the fallacy of scientism, everything else seems to regress, to the point that scientific and technological progress have even become self-defe...
In Antifragility, Nassim Taleb argues that the belief that university knowledge generates economic wealth stems more from superstition than empiricism...
If a question does not fall under the purview of a particular epistemic method, it could still be handled by another one. The fallacy of scientism, is...
The problem with Hilbert's "language game" is again connotational. John Nash's game theoritical contribution concerning equilibria in n-person strateg...
It depends on the definition of "science" and "religion". If science is popperian falsificationism and religion is axiomatic morality, then they do no...
As far as I am concerned, the "quantum physics license" applies when investigating particles to which the size of a photon is noticeable, given the fa...
When I read the literal words of David Hilbert (formalist) I seem to pretty much always agree, because apparently, I experience things in the same way...
I guess that you say that because you attach a value judgement to the terms "meaningful" ("good") and "meaningless" ("bad"). I don't. Furthermore, fak...
Does Everyone Have a Mental Illness? Why does it seem that nearly everyone has a mental illness? Why does everyone have some kind of mental illness th...
I do not "take offence", of course. There is obviously quite a bit of presuppositionism going on in the field of knowledge, but not where Collingwood ...
We are also working diligently on that "stock exchanges" issue. If you are a bit adventurous and not too scared of Big Brother -- and if you are, do i...
Collingwood writes: The word ‘science’, in its original sense, which is still its proper sense not in the English language alone but in the internatio...
Quantities, i.e. numbers, are not even needed for inadvertently dragging in an entire bureaucracy of verifiable formalisms, rules and regulations: ass...
In my opinion, the very first question is rather: do corporations even make sense any longer? We do not need taxi companies any longer, because we hav...
It is actually hard, convoluted, and rather pricey to get hold of the publication: https://www.bookdepository.com/Essay-on-Metaphysics-Collingwood/978...
I have always thought of these things as subjects of epistemology, i.e. theory of knowledge. Metaphysics study is conducted using deduction from that ...
Specialization? Division of labour? The possibility for individual cells to specialize, so that they can carry out specific functions more efficiently...
Positive and negative justification are computationally different. The quantifier, "there exists" (?), does not need to traverse the entire domain. It...
You can find a summary of Noam Chomsky's political views, in his Wikipedia page, along with attribution to his original publications (in the footnotes...
It is a connotational issue. For example, in common parlance, "laziness" is bad; even very bad. In a technical context, laziness, as in "lazy evaluati...
You could be right. I am not familiar with the semiotics thing. Well, if all the meaning is necessarily elsewhere ... I think that the problem is rath...
Only if the terminals in that system are meaningless. Otherwise, no. For example, the terminals in natural language ("the defining vocabulary") are ex...
Ever since the publication of "The Kingdom of Auschwitz", by Otto Friedrich, it seems to be ok to mock the literal German version too. In fact, Orwell...
I was just making fun of these long German words by inventing a mostly meaningless one. Apparently, I am not the only one doing that! ;-) This used to...
Ha, they blatantly copied that from the Charter of the International Military Tribunal - Annex to the Agreement for the prosecution and punishment of ...
Carefully look at a person when he is still alive. You can even talk to him, discuss with him, or go for a walk with him. Later on, when the time come...
Well, when people become semantical, they are often intentionally motivated. It is a real-world job to help other people discover and/or achieve their...
No, it is the apples that provide the semantics/meaning. So, it is not meaningless. It is application of mathematics and not mathematics proper. So, y...
Unlike metaphysics, which is epistemically not a legitimate subdiscipline of physics -- as it cannot experimentally test its propositions -- metamathe...
Agreed. In Kant's lingo, mathematics truly is synthetic, i.e. knowledge. It is, however, "a priori", i.e. divorced from the real, physical world; unli...
That still does not mean that language would be a physical phenomenon with size, weight, temperature, electromagnetic radiation. Does language have an...
Yes, daily life pretty much unavoidably gets trapped into the web of mathematics, simply, by inadvertently using an abstract, Platonic object of mathe...
If a symbol is a nonterminal, then it can be explained in terms of other nonterminals and terminals, using a production rule, which gives it its defin...
Engineering is a semantical and even a very intentional thing. For example, you want to build a boat. It must be 55 meters long. By dragging "55" into...
Yes, but not necessarily outside the realm of mathematics. I believe that mathematics more or less enforces Platonism by its metarules on the declarat...
Yes, as to the universality of Popper's falsificationism, you can even subject Pavlov's dogs, who are clearly falsificationist animals, to repeated at...
"The" philosophy may not exist. The main ingredient in the discovery of new knowledge cannot possibly be knowledge. Otherwise, humanity would not have...
To cut a long story short, in my opinion, Hume makes sense by supporting falsifcationism because Pavlov's dog does that too. I guess that is why Karl ...
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