The goal of science? Science (as a whole) is not a goal driven enterprise. Science is about making discoveries....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
Good. :up: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
Yeah, and I was taught in Yeshivah that we don't know who Amelek is. (I also happen to know some Jewish fundamentalists who believe the Germans are Amelek.)Amelek tribe. God ordered the death of all their people, including killing all their animals. — Hanover
There's also the genocide of Amelekportray the Jews as laying waste to quite a number of cities and tribes in their conquest of the Promised Land. — Ciceronianus
:victory: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
Communism is horrible! :hearts: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
How is that philosophy?? It's a political statement! :roll:I am opposed to enforced lockdowns to protect us against viruses. — Bartricks
He's coming at it from a philophical perspective.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
Okay. Where can i read up about the philosophy of COVID viruses? I need to be infomed.Well, it was stupid. It had no philosophical content. — Bartricks
My question is, if experiential states are so private, why is he talking about them!Gertie says, "Experiential states exist as private certain knowledge to the experiencing subject.
What profit motive? Most people are just trying to make a living.What we will lack is the "profit motive" — Michael Zwingli
I'm stuck here. It's hard to imagine a language that doesn't rely on any sort of social conventions.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
And say goodbye to private business!the state as intermediary of all function and arbiter of all decision-making. — Michael Zwingli
I'm not going to do your job. :angry:like what do you want, a history lesson? :D use google for that. ;) — stoicHoneyBadger
That's not confirmation.Russian October revolution rings a bell? — stoicHoneyBadger
They're all Marxists??AKA "progressive liberals — Michael Zwingli
Do you have any confirmation for this claim?whenever Marxists come to power, it always end in a totalitarian state and misery & concentrations camps for the people. — stoicHoneyBadger
That's just your opinion...Just know that their goal is to get political power, not "make things better". — stoicHoneyBadger
Why does he think it is necessary? Wittgenstein doesn't seem to be very rigorous.Given his thinking about how language develops, viz., that it's not a totally private affair, it's done necessarily with other people — Sam26
Marxists.race hustlers? — stoicHoneyBadger
I would have to ask them in person.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
Those are misrepresentations.Feminism, pretty much the same, telling women that there is a 'glass ceiling', that men won't allow them to succeed. — stoicHoneyBadger
Why does Wittgenstein mention "imagination"?But could we imagine a language in which a person could write down or give vocal expression to his inner experiences — Sam26
Can you give an example?Marxist ideology that tells some problematic group that all their problems are because the other group is oppressing them — stoicHoneyBadger
I listen to people who have manners!all talk, no listen. — Metaphysician Undercover
It is difficult to understand. :rage:Is this difficult for you to understand? — Metaphysician Undercover
Are you referring to Social conflict theory ?splitting the society into oppressors vs oppressed — stoicHoneyBadger
Didn't say that.Exactly what Thunderballs says, science is not self-contained. — Metaphysician Undercover
I'm not sure exactly what my mind is made up about. :confused:All "Prove me wrong" means is that your mind is made up and there is nothing I can say that will change it — Sam26
It means that i don't have the proper vocabulary to argue with you.Okay," what kind of response is that — Sam26
Where's the logic in that?Science isn't a self-correcting system though, because it needs guidance from theory and hypothesis — Metaphysician Undercover
I think you'll like this guy.Science is the most intolerant culture. — Thunderballs