:up: @"counterpunch" buys into the pop story of Catholic anti-scientific practice. It's partly right, of course, but the story is much more complicate...
Here's an inarticulate little fish. Should this be read as an argument? "Science has almost zero to say on the human condition and little to say on va...
Introspection? What one ought do is decided by interacting with other people, not by navel-gazing. You're being misled by your focus on the subjective...
Foundherentism looks to be a long stretch; I hadn't given it more than a passing glance. Was it a vid worth the time? Edit: this might be interesting:...
...that just doesn't work. If it is going to help decide between our options, then it cannot be neutral towards them If it is neutral it cannot help u...
A very 'Mercan view. Elsewhere guns are generally considered bad, or at best a necessary evil. Here's the thing: Science is not neutral; rather it is ...
...and here's the thrust of the argument, so far as there is one: Yes, the application of science has brought about much that is unwanted. Nevertheles...
Here's the Pinker talk mentioned earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCm9Ng0bbEQ Perhaps raising it will amount to throwing the religious blowfis...
Nor I. @"Possibility", again, would you agree that acting in the absence of certainty is rational, even inevitable, and perhaps praiseworthy; but neve...
It's not opaque. I'm simply analysing the various accounts of reincarnation to see if they are consistent both with themselves and with other stuff I ...
The notion of incommensurate conceptual schema did survive Davidson's criticism. Non-overlapping magisteria overlap. Otherwise we could not understand...
The Theaetetus, so often taken as an argument for knowledge as justified true belief, ends with no such conclusion. We are left with the same doubt he...
Abraham showed himself to be willing to commit a heinous act at the command of his god. A god of whom he had direct evidence in the form of burning bu...
Well, that's a different view to that espoused by others. So what we have is that acting in the absence of certainty is rational, even inevitable, and...
If you think it would help. I don't see how. Our disagreement is pretty simple. I find the narrative shared here concerning reincarnation is unconvinc...
Who's, then, matters? A rhetorical question, of course. We are each obliged to act despite not having sufficient grounds for acting rationally. Hence ...
Well, I'll follow Feyerabend in rejecting falsification as a definitive method, so that doesn't help much. Yes, I think we are talking past each other...
I still read underlining as web links... Interesting to see it making a comeback as emphasis. I'll maintain my point; you are not talking about truth,...
But faith, not so much. Faith here, following Augustin, as belief despite the facts. Indeed, that is the antithesis of science, since it debars self-c...
...those who do not respond to the criticism, but instead to the criticiser. Yes, that was apparent in several recent threads - the one on Reincarnati...
Good to hear from you, Toby. I suspected you were lurking back there somewhere, in the shadows, watching, waiting. I'm want to start a thread about de...
By far the best way to eat vanilla icecream is with a dash of balsamic vinegar. I urge you not to judge this in advance, but to try it for yourself. I...
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