Olivier5

One observation can be validated by another.

The OP resonates. Allow me a French tangent. I used to love François Cavanna, a journalist and writer who spent a lot of time engaged in what he calle...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8W9P0AWQAQhP6z?format=jpg Graph from the latest IPCC report (2021).

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Why should I do that? You are obviously not arguing in good faith. You are busy blindfolding yourself.

But there are dozens such models... What smells fishy to me is that you are not aware of that, and yet you go all judgmental about it... It proves tha...

That is again simply not true that an error in prediction by a tenth of a degree will have "serious consequences" or "induce mass panic". You're just ...

So scientists are not allowed to make mistakes.

I mean, people asking for perfection are all absolutely perfect themselves, right?

That's a technicality and will depend on the variables being estimated. The important point here, generically speaking, is that truth and accuracy are...

Does your anus perfectly match predictions made about its throughput, or doesn't it? If if it doesn't, should we believe in your anus?

That is a lie you've been told. There are no serious, qualified scientist with 'misgivings' about climate change.

Rather, being true is being accurate.

You have zero reason to doubt climate change, other than the misinformation you've been fed.

Yes, and vice versa: a statement claiming to be true must be based on some observation or another. Otherwise you cannot know what is true and what isn...

Or an accurate observation.

Why, he got you into a twist? Maps without territories are simply not maps; they are drawings.

Of course, and so does yours. And there no dishonesty about it. You should try and relax a bit.

As presented here to us, it is a dream, but a particularly odious one, as far as dreams go. Disgusting, in fact.

Okay, the Duhem–Quine thesis, good point. Data are always interpreted and even collected based on some theoretical framework. Yet in the end, when Ms....

And it provides another reason to define facts as 'accurate observations', at least in scientific language: science is made of 1) observations and 2) ...

:up: As pointed out, the general use of the term 'fact' today is for 'a true and settled statement about the state of affairs', or 'a statement that i...

Ok, so you haven't disproven my hypothesis that early empiricists had something to do with the word's most modern meaning. Good. Of course. Other usef...

As a descriptive metaphor, I like to think of it as a space for ideas, the field our ideas play in. As a functional metaphor, I see the mind as the pi...

In general, I agree, but in this case there is no science possible without some faith in the capacities of the human mind to understand the world.

And you know a concept, any concept, that has NOT allowed philosophers to generate centuries of argument without obtaining consensus as to what, if an...

What's an observation, if not an experience? But point taken: a fact has to be accurate and in order to be widely accepted as such, to be 'a statement...

It's a fact for me, because I can feel my pain, but it's not a fact for you, because for all you know, I could be pretending.

I don't believe half of what that cockroach says.

? Okay so we agree that a fact is an accurate observation, then?

I have religious beliefs? That must be a misunderstanding.

Such as?

I'm talking about scientific, empirical facts. Not sure what a "religious fact" would be? Do you have an example?

Indeed, I am an empiricist. The general use of the term 'fact' today is 'a true and settled statement about the state of affairs', or 'a statement tha...

A fact is an accurate observation.

I like @"Bartricks"'s jokes too. Is 'being funny' material? Can humour be weighted or measured in any way? We don't even know what humour is, and yet ...

Hey, speak for yourself. Your mind might be obscure, but mine isn't.

Note the similarity with Sartre's "Hell is the others".

What's the difference between western philosophies and non-western ones? That's easy: western philosophies are located where the sun sets down, while ...

Bateson wrote about how paradoxical injonctions can make people skizophrenic. The same apply IMO to self-contradicting philosophies: they can literall...

https://cdn-japantimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/np_file_1547.jpeg

Quite true; I found taking the shots fun, not unlike skydiving. :-)

Err, that's simply not true. Whether the future is fully predetermined has siltch to see with whether there exist "non-physical events" or not. What y...

Your point remained unstated until now, so it could not possibly be described as clear, at least not to me. I know it's clear in your mind but you sti...

So what are you saying, exactly? Sorry but I'm tired of guessing.

If Jesus was a real (normal) person, he was the son of a man and a woman, and the narrative was tampered to make him the Son of God. What you are sayi...

Awful. The story has it that one good Rabbi Shlomo from Riga was so righteous in the way of G.d that G.d decided to grant him a wish. He send an angel...

Or more prosaically, that human beings make their own heaven or hell here on earth, depending on how they treat each other. That cycles of violence ne...

Would you like to expand on this? What more is at stake with Jesus?

Actually you haven't described this difference.