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What's that then? As in, if you what to claim that there is good science and bad science, we might listen better if you can tell us how to differentia...

I think the problem is, what do we want?

Yeah, maybe. Then again... There's a distinction between knowing stuff and doing stuff. Science falls on the side of knowing stuff. Sure, what you kno...

Well, where is Aristotle, or even causation, mentioned in Hawking's article? Is that all you got?

The info I can access has exponential growth starting not earlier than around 1200CE. Before that the curve looks pretty straight.

You're standing in it. See this thread.

Meh. see Hawking's paper at http://www.pas.va/content/dam/accademia/pdf/sv48pas.pdf You are, it seems, attempting to apply Aristotelian logic in a pla...

Well explained - I understand, and have great sympathy for the Anscombe/Wittgenstein view you are explaining. See the thread Anscombe's "Modern Moral ...

How odd. Ought you keep your promises? Of course. Hence keeping promises has a moral aspect. Yet promises are as much a social convention as is proper...

Yep, I'll agree with that. The quality of posts has gone down hill since you joined.

Now that's much better. And I'm partially incline to agree. Recall Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosophy". But I will baulk at not assigning truth value...

So is that you live your mum determined by empirical evidence or deduction from first principles? What about that your left foot is in pain - empirica...

With all this new armament of analysis, let's go back to your first comment: Sure, there is no empirical evidence that one ought not lie. Nor is it de...

Yeah, you did. That's ok, though. Let me show you. See how the first sentence starts to set out the truth conditions - it elliptically refers to the c...

Tell me, do you love your mother? SO, is it truth that you love your mother? What are the truth conditions for that?

That's not a recognisable physical state though, is it. SO its not just recognisable physical states that are the truth conditions for propositions, o...

SO - what physical state will that be? Let me help you out: "a cat is on the mat" will be true if and only if a cat is on the mat. Do you agree? If no...

See the way you slid from the truth conditions to the justification for your belief? So, set out exactly what the truth conditions are for "a cat is o...

What exactly are the truth conditions for this being true?

That's an interesting piece of biography about you. Other folk understand that one ought not kill. But of course, you are probably manifesting rhetori...

Is it true that you ought not kill?

Dunno. What do you think?

Then I trust you do not have a gun. Not many folk are so willing to admit their sociopathy in a public forum - I supose you ought get some kudos for t...

You, not we. There's nothing in the list of things that constitute the self that continues past death

Quiet a few, as was expected.

I do that in my day job.

With the coming of individual ownership we lost the notion of common responsibility.

They're back...

The issue is not magic, but attempts to talk about stuff that is not understood. It's OK to say "I don't know"; more, doing so is better than making s...

The above-mentioned TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=folTvNDL08A Deutsch proposes a variation on the detail of falsificationism. I'm not conv...

The soul as a cloud of magic energy. Not for me.

Nice words. The devil is in the detail, the myth that will accompany the spirituality, the lie-to-children. See the Phaedo thread. @"Fooloso4" perhaps...

:up: and does the same, but with more words.

:wink: Probably. But perhaps it's easier for the bungled and botched to 'surpass normality'.

Yeah, well, I prefer the company of the bungled and botched to that of the gods.

Well, these are the unaddressed questions in this thread. I'll go with Wittgenstein's rope; we treat it as a single rope, despite no single thread run...

Lies to children are simplified versions of the truth, containing intentional lies that cover deeper, more detailed or complex issues in order to expl...

Yep.

The anti-science responses so far have been trivial; middle class whinging. Hopefully something more will appear.

But then you could only know about a few of them. The problem is world-wide, and related to climate change. We know this because...?

Tell me, how is it that you know about the reefs?

If we ban the kids, we could go back to reading texts rather than having to sit through tedious YouTube videos.

Well, it's good for me. I'd be dead several times without the medical benefits of science. For you, you choose.

Platonism, philosopher kings, ubermensch, and so on. Philosophy is self-serving nonsense - as Witti showed. It is easy to mythologise the philosopher ...

Philosophy as elitism.

You point is obscure. The caterpillar becomes a butterfly.

:wink: But not I with him... at least on issues of language. I've used his TED talk with teenage kids, who have responded with astonishment; they hadn...