...what if the goal of a science isn't to be factually correct? — Banno

Science, for instance, lead to the mustard gas, the atom bomb, flame throwers, paper shredders, tnt, LRAD, and the electric chair. — Ennui Elucidator

I prefer the non-literal approach, where Amelek represents evil and the reminder that such actually exists. One shouldn't have sympathy for the devil I suppose it is to mean. — Hanover

Amelek tribe. God ordered the death of all their people, including killing all their animals. — Hanover

portray the Jews as laying waste to quite a number of cities and tribes in their conquest of the Promised Land. — Ciceronianus

But anyway, you're either being tedious for the sake of sadistic delight (oo, look at me being torturously stupid to a clever person), or you're genuinely baffled, in which case you need to work with your hands and leave the thinking to others. — Bartricks

Yes, i was just born in a than communist occupied country and all the atrocities they committed are still pretty fresh in our collective memory, — stoicHoneyBadger

I am opposed to enforced lockdowns to protect us against viruses. — Bartricks

Folks, Bartricks denies that refusing to take a vaccine entails risks to others than himself. Such silliness is not to be reasoned with. Is he that stupid? — tim wood

Well, it was stupid. It had no philosophical content. — Bartricks

Gertie says, "Experiential states exist as private certain knowledge to the experiencing subject.

What we will lack is the "profit motive" — Michael Zwingli

Imagine a private language, i.e., just one that you're creating. Now try to imagine that you have to remember how to use all the words/concepts involved in your language. — Sam26

the state as intermediary of all function and arbiter of all decision-making. — Michael Zwingli

like what do you want, a history lesson? :D use google for that. ;) — stoicHoneyBadger

Russian October revolution rings a bell? — stoicHoneyBadger

Gertie's statement — Sam26

he statement, is directly connected to much of what Wittgenstein talks about in the PLA. — Sam26

AKA "progressive liberals — Michael Zwingli

whenever Marxists come to power, it always end in a totalitarian state and misery & concentrations camps for the people. — stoicHoneyBadger

Just know that their goal is to get political power, not "make things better". — stoicHoneyBadger

Given his thinking about how language develops, viz., that it's not a totally private affair, it's done necessarily with other people — Sam26

race hustlers? — stoicHoneyBadger

And what do you think are correct representations? — stoicHoneyBadger

Critical race theory, for example, teaches black kids that they would not be able to succeed in life because of their skin color, — stoicHoneyBadger

Feminism, pretty much the same, telling women that there is a 'glass ceiling', that men won't allow them to succeed. — stoicHoneyBadger

But could we imagine a language in which a person could write down or give vocal expression to his inner experiences — Sam26

Marxist ideology that tells some problematic group that all their problems are because the other group is oppressing them — stoicHoneyBadger

all talk, no listen. — Metaphysician Undercover

Did you not read my posts? — Metaphysician Undercover

Is this difficult for you to understand? — Metaphysician Undercover

corrections come from outside science — Metaphysician Undercover

splitting the society into oppressors vs oppressed — stoicHoneyBadger

Exactly what Thunderballs says, science is not self-contained. — Metaphysician Undercover

All "Prove me wrong" means is that your mind is made up and there is nothing I can say that will change it — Sam26

Okay," what kind of response is that — Sam26

Science isn't a self-correcting system though, because it needs guidance from theory and hypothesis — Metaphysician Undercover

Science is the most intolerant culture. — Thunderballs