Take some pride in your work if you want to wound. — apokrisis
You have to sound reasonable when you make your grant application. — apokrisis
Abduction doesn’t define a relation of consequence between premises and conclusions; logic requires a structured notation, absent from abduction. Abduction might be a good name for a psychological process, but it ain't a logic.
— Banno
Strawman. It is a necessary part of a logic of science. The bit that gets the game of deduction and inductive confirmation started. — apokrisis
What Peirce called the growth of cosmic habit. — apokrisis
https://kfoundation.org/it-is-no-measure-of-health-to-be-well-adjusted-to-a-profoundly-sick-society/The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted. — Aldous Huxley
To suggest that laws (so defined) come and go over time is ad hoc, because there's no evidence for this. — Relativist
She notes this concept, inherited trauma, is contentious, but it sure resonates intuitively. — Jeremy Murray
it seems much more likely that we have some non-deductive justification. — Relativist
We are the universe contemplating itself — Copernicus
Well, our sapience is a tangible proof of our excellence above the rest of the earthly creatures. — Copernicus
The parts of the body were having a meeting, trying to decide who was the one in charge...
"I should be in charge," said the brain , "Because I run all the body's systems, so without me nothing would happen."
"I should be in charge," said the blood , "Because I circulate oxygen all over so without me you'd waste away."
"I should be in charge," said the stomach," Because I process food and give all of you energy."
"I should be in charge," said the legs, "because I carry the body wherever it needs to go."
"I should be in charge," said the eyes, "Because I allow the body to see where it goes."
"I should be in charge," said the rectum, "Because Im responsible for waste removal."
All the other body parts laughed at the rectum And insulted him, so in a huff, he shut down tight. Within a few days, the brain had a terrible headache, the stomach was bloated, the legs got wobbly, the eyes got watery, and the blood Was toxic. They all decided that the rectum should be the boss
The Moral of the story? Even though the others do all the work.... The ass hole is usually in charge
We're still at the top of the animal kingdom, — Copernicus
we restore a unified vision of existence — Copernicus
This paper argues ... — Copernicus
By dissolving the false dichotomy between matter and mind, we restore a unified vision of existence: consciousness as the apex of complexity, not its contradiction. — Copernicus
So, what you're about to see is part one of my interview with Branoslav Slanchev. Uh, and he he's a political scientist and honestly, this was like the most aha uh interview that I've ever done with anyone. It's just like he lays things out. I'm going to do it in two parts. So, this is part one. So, here we go. — Transcript of the vid intro
As in the rock intended to start the avalanche that happened by intending to pursue gravitational paths of less resistance down the mountain just so?
That would make a rather extreme animist of you. Not even the spiritualists I've encountered hold such views. — javra
Then explain by what you meant by "I believe in science." — Relativist
Science is not equivalent to what individual scientists say. I'm referring to commonly accepted theory. — Relativist
Accepting science means you treat the body of scientific information as true, despite the fact that it is possibly false — Relativist
Do you reject everything science teaches? Scientific theory is developed through abduction, and it has proved successful. — Relativist
That seems a rather strange, if not perverse, response from someone who thinks we should be guided by the science as to what to do about human-induced global warming. — Janus
Suppose you have a retirement account and you're trying to invest the money to grow large enough to enable you to one day retire. Would you consider taking guidance from astrology, fortune cookies, and California Psychics? If not, why not - if all "rational" choices are simply acts of desperation? — Relativist
... there is no other guide. — Janus
He is not going to recommend that you abandon your science or your common sense. But he is going to ask you to abandon your arrogance and righteousness.
— unenlightened
This seems like kind of an arrogant and righteous comment. — T Clark
... some explanation is needed for the constant conjunction of past regularities. I judge that the "inference to best explanation" for this is that there exist laws of nature that necessitate this behavior. — Relativist
So what's the alternative? — Relativist
Suppose you and I reach different conclusions. We could then both profit from having a discussion to identify differences in background beliefs and the reasoning we each employed. We may then adjust our beliefs and/or revise the sort of reasoning we employ. — Relativist
But rationality is more likely to lead to truth than irrationality. — Relativist
You provided rational reasons not take the bet. But another person might very well take the bet, on the basis of the probability and some good reasons to be confident he wasn't being scammed - that would be rational also. — Relativist
Would your decision to take the bet be rational? — T Clark
Sorry, I really don’t understand this argument — T Clark
So, what’s the problem? — T Clark
The doubt is justified on similar grounds. Might we be like the turkey? You might "remember" the sun always rising, but in virtue of what do you know that your memory is reliable? Plus, given Hume's disjoint bundle anthropology, the reliability of memory is perhaps more open to doubt. — Count Timothy von Icarus
I don't see the value in this kind of distinction. How do you see it? — T Clark
I have to be charitable and conclude that you only mean to prove my thesis with this little display of uptight contrariety. So thank you. :up: — apokrisis
Still, instantiations such as the latter cases of rape do attest to the fact that some adult humans become utterly immune to it. Love is to them a false promise, hence an utter falsity, hence a wrong reality to uphold, or, more simply, a wrong. Notwithstanding, duly agreed with the proposition: (universal) love is that which makes the world go round. — javra
