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- Sat Oct 26, 2013 10:58 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Disagree with me.
- Replies: 53
- Views: 18071
Re: Disagree with me.
I subscribe to the notion I first read articulated by John Stuart Mill: ideas are strengthened, indeed only truly understood, having been subjected to an open criticism and debate. Only then do we properly know the objections of our viewpoint and its retorts. Thats being said: A chair is only a cha...
- Sat Oct 26, 2013 10:43 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: A Simple Theory of Gravity
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8563
Re: A Simple Theory of Gravity
An idea that just occurred to me: Gravitational curvature as being an increment of relations for one reference to more of other references. Like a basket ball rolling slowly from sand to grass and where each new grass piece touching it is a new relationship, or more literally, like a magazine with ...
- Fri Oct 25, 2013 10:46 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: We are all born Atheist
- Replies: 43
- Views: 14261
Re: We are all born Atheist
What do you mean "god(s)"?atheosalio wrote:Let's start the thread with a simple question. Should I believe in your god(s)? Why or why not?
- Fri Oct 25, 2013 10:45 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: We are all born Atheist
- Replies: 43
- Views: 14261
Re: We are all born Atheist
We are all born theist. We are all born intuitively knowing there is a designer behind the design. Evo indoctrination at school readily takes care of that though. This palpably false. Babies do not even have a concept of design, let alone a designer. It is safe to say that the idea of gods was prob...
- Fri Oct 25, 2013 10:38 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: We are all born Atheist
- Replies: 43
- Views: 14261
Re: We are all born Atheist
You need to know and consider that the idea of gods exist and what damage or benefit can come from such an idea.atheosalio wrote:Let's start the thread with a simple question. Should I believe in your god(s)? Why or why not?
Apart from that you might like to consider to what degree such an idea is bat-shit crazy?
- Fri Oct 25, 2013 10:35 pm
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: Epistemology defeats itself with its own premisese
- Replies: 30
- Views: 13415
Re: Epistemology defeats itself with its own premisese
"Epistemology is an exercise which attempts to expose the underlying assumptions we make about claims to knowledge. " Some aspects of philosophical epistemology do this. But this statement is a caricature, designed to assert the claim in the title of the thread. But this caricature is a so...
- Fri Oct 25, 2013 11:58 am
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: You can't show that inductive reasoning is unjustified
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4953
Re: You can't show that inductive reasoning is unjustified
This seems to be exactly the same as post one?!?!?1brain in a vat wrote:Sorry I just edit my post to correct my typing error. (see bold) You can't use deduction to prove that "all inductive inferences are unjustified". And if you use induction your argument is self-defeating.
- Fri Oct 25, 2013 11:54 am
- Forum: Epistemology - Theory of Knowledge
- Topic: You can't show that inductive reasoning is unjustified
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4953
Re: You can't show that inductive reasoning is unjustified
You can't use deduction to prove that "all inductive inferences are unjustified". And if you use induction your argument is self-defeating. Are you implying that you can use deduction to prove that SOME inductive inferences are justified? If you use "induction in you argument' then y...