That, it ain't. What you are proposing is not the consensus. Information, complexity - promising areas of research. But again, you want to turn it int...
Science is more likely to be explained in sociological than metaphysical terms nowadays - pretty much since Feyerabend's criticism of Popper's program...
Yeah, as I said, so does god. Have a look a the thread on Confirmable and influential Metaphysics. The position you are taking strikes me as a "Haunte...
Seems to me you are just offering yet another game. It's the overreach that bugs me the most, though. Think I pointed that out before. Taking speculat...
That's interesting. It's a long way from where I am, but I'm pleased to see the political aspect being raised. As mentioned elsewhere, I'm thinking th...
Nor do I; but I wonder what you think of @"Pop"'s reply. I'll admit not seeing much in it at all. Saying "forms can be anything physical" doesn't ring...
That all sounds very liberal and pleasant, but what process goes into "establishing agreement not only about basic definitions... but also about basic...
Occam's Razor is god? Wittgenstein proceeded beyond this; as if the Tractatus were his final word. He subsequently showed the limitations of his view ...
SO if you can't ask the question succinctly and simply, is there a question? Or is the point of doing philosophy to say "Ennui Elucidator" instead of ...
What is it to have a proof here? In what way are you compelled by logic? There are those - myself amongst them - who deny that this is a cogent argume...
...then the solipsist must be using the words differently - playing a different game. So have they shown that they alone exist, or just redefined "sel...
Are you asking a question or calling me names? All those quotes and big words already assume so much. Can you ask your question with them? And if not,...
Look at that sentence. What is the word "my" doing there? Isn't it differentiating between your claims and those of other folk? A solipsist making tha...
Can you prove you are in pain? How? What do you think proof is? What does it consist in? Something that forces agreement? You asked me a question; the...
Of course it does. A 'table' is human construct, a label we put on some particular collection of atoms. Hence it is as real as those atoms. And those ...
Oh, yes, you're right. Problems arise when this is take to be how things are; the error, for example, of thinking that there is no table, only a perce...
No, that's not what was said. The argument is that if "religion as the locus of issues of ultimate concern in the Western tradition is pretty unobject...
And in the mean time we have vaccination, air conditioning, interweb stuff, pain relief, surgery, vehicles. And fewer intestinal parasites. I don't mi...
An interesting point that I think is misleading. In the late Roman period the educated elite espoused philosophical positions in addition to, and in p...
Why should we speak of it in religious terms? Why not in ethical terms? Or psychological? Or social? Or political? You appear to have religion as your...
What to do with that. Do you think perhaps you might be blaming the messenger? Do you suppose that if you shoot all the scientists, that would solve t...
That, too then. Generally your posts have been reasonable. And you have earned more than one defender... ready to be tetchy on your behalf. Anyway, th...
Ok. The Big Bang is a better story than Genesis. With Genesis the story is given, and folk spend their time trying to make the world fit the story. Wi...
Because the keyboard works. Th game of science has been set up so that if what we say doesn't work, we re-think it. We change what is being said so th...
...well, yes; these are its real colours, not the colours it might have under funny lights. That's it's real edge, not the edge of the glass tabletop....
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