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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.Swartz expressed some of his views on maths as noted in the quote from him I cited. Let me go into that a bit more. But first, note... -
pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.More on metaphysics from Swartz: Note that this was written decades ago, and we are now having the very debate about whether AI is or...
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.Not sure you think why these words are “rather undefined,” but we could posit a certain fuzziness to then, and their meanings would...
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.I assure you Swartz has not lived such an existence. ;)
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.Professor Norman Swartz on metaphysics:
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.No, they do not. And look! You just defined it! But the definition in insufficient, for the same reason that attempts to...
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.More from Against Method, and PLEASE NOTE that I am not necessarily endorsing these views, but just offering them as fodder for discussion:
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.From Against Method:
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.From the intro to Against Method:
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.Sure, all of the above is fine, but the point remains that we should not rule out edge ideas as false because they cannot be true, and...
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.I propose an iidb book club in which we start with Feyerabend’s Against Method, and then proceed to Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood...
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.Critics can critique a play without being actors or directors. As a matter of fact, though, some philosophers are scientists, and some...
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I guess I have my opinion on this but there likely is not a rigorous definition of the so-called “scientific method”. But there are...
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pood replied to the thread Philosophy Of Science.Against Method
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I deleted my post but what I was thinking was not so much the products of science but the process itself. People who are undergoing...
