If you are amoral you have no reason to think that it is better to be safe rather than not to be safe, so what is the basis of this claim of yours tha...
I suppose you could start by saying what you mean by “evil” first of all. How can someone be evil and empathetic at the same time? (Now I see you edit...
Too few words in your response I'm afraid: Ruined by what? If what happens? Are you saying if I'm not evil my life could be ruined? If so, what is the...
Yes, there we go. It's all clear now (and I thought we already reached an understanding during our first exchange). If Science doesn't claim to know t...
Sure, I don't disagree with that addition (so long as we know that there isn't a significant chance for that knowledge to be used for evil purposes). ...
True in an epistemological sense: Can be rationally justified by a chain of reasoning. True in a pragmatic sense: Is useful for achieving certain ends...
Please forgive me if I do not understand what you mean by this: are you saying that truth in an epistemological sense answers both the “why” and the “...
Yes, that is why I followed with “Because(...)” They were to some extent conditioned by the beliefs of their time in their investigations yes, but may...
Ok, we observe that a rock falls to the ground if we let it go from a certain height, that is the fact we observe. Technically, we have not deduced th...
The assumption has to do with: But see, though we would call someone who believed that the sun won't rise tomorrow or that he'd be able to fly in a co...
I see, would you say that those are the basic beliefs of Science and that it fits in the horn of foundationalism, or would you say that it is wholly o...
Kant and Hume emphasized the importance of scientific knowledge in many of their writings, specially the extraordinary achievements of Isaac Newton. A...
What do you mean by “beyond the bounds of reason”? Asking for the justification of the principle of induction seems within the bounds of reason. Hume,...
Ok, it seems I took your previous statement a bit too literally. I do agree that we have a right to say that some combinations of beliefs are contradi...
But the problem of induction also raises the following question: How do we know that the laws of physics, chemistry and biology won't change or cease ...
If that happened, it would perhaps prove that E=MC^2 when that happened, but it wouldn't prove that E?MC^2 must be false in the future (not even in th...
And so, he can't find certain knowledge about: That is, I think, what Kolakowski meant when he said: If all our knowledge about the world were made up...
I also feel inclined sometimes to think that technological effectiveness should be the justification of Science. But then I look at the regrettable si...
I think critical rationalism is a very good practical philosophy for Science, however I am not quite convinced that it will escape the Trilemma. Let's...
But don't scientists make claims about probability that they think they have proven? Aren't those the claims which are ultimately subject to the Trile...
According to that logical structure: 1.Bricks (A) are part of a wall (B) 2.A wall (B) is part of a house (C) 3.Therefore, a house (C) is necessarily p...
I guess you mean something more like: If A is part of B, and C is part of A, then C is also part of B. One of my university professors (the same one I...
If that is what you mean, then there is no meaning in calling a perspective “one's own perspective” rather than “someone else's perspective”, since it...
This is the passage of Gardner that you quoted, in context. If the moral relativist says that no moral values can be better than others on the ground ...
Maybe somebody already told you this, but Gödel also uses something called Gödel numbering. The Gödel statement is coded in a particular Gödel number,...
I don't think they are. I and many others often feel pleasure in the pursuit of truth, and so they are not incompatible. Reading the great philosopher...
That's actually a somewhat hard question, but for the sake of discussion, how about: Has some objective reality outside human minds? Or: It isn't mere...
If it's the God of some religion, and such a God planned to punish forever all the people who don't believe in that religion, or would justify crimes ...
Since I have never tried any drugs before, I can't say much with regards to whether the sensation they give is really that great (I hugely doubt it), ...
Everyone wants to feel happy right? (Except perhaps some suicidal people). We often disagree as to the means to achieve that end, but not as regards t...
If he is bored because his life is too easy, all he has to do is to wish that he were not bored (if in fact any and all of his desires are to be fulfi...
True, it could be that they are simply accustomed to that life style and were taught since their early life that it was good or normal to do or think ...
They are the same in the sense that they are merely something that occurs in one's mind, that fact itself is neither right nor wrong. What may be righ...
The police and legal punishment do, as well as empathy towards one's neighbour (for those who feel it anyway). In my case, I'd say I wouldn't like you...
True, like I responded to another user the only way out of such a situation seems to be this: The man who wishes for everyone's desires not to be fulf...
I understand that many people (myself included) wish to believe that “all sin is due to ignorance”, as philosophers like Spinoza thought, and that if ...
I mean, I'm fine with lacking that. Is there a reason why we should not lack anything? In that paradise we also lack pain and despair, but it doesn't ...
But Schopenhauer said that all wishes were to be fulfilled in that scenario. Wouldn't you say Jack would also wish to never feel bored? So that wish m...
I am not the one using those terms, but rather my university professor. But you are right in that it probably doesn't make sense when taken literally....
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