Of course, that’s the mainstream engaging in what is merely scientific fraud (claiming greater certainty than one can testify to) due to motivated reasoning.
My mom died of it as well.
Source date (UTC): 2023-07-24 14:16:36 UTC
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And being told you’re wrong isn’t the same thing as pseudoscience. It turns out that it’s easy to identify pseudoscience because there is a motive other than truth.
Source date (UTC): 2023-07-24 13:22:09 UTC
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I understand your point; it’s just not how we define pseudoscience today. A claim of Science must meet a set of criteria satisfying testifiability. The most important of which is realism (absence of magic etc) and determinism (regularity of causality). I can enumerate each of the criteria of testifiability if needed. Pseudoscience is different from scientific fraud (which is pervasive today) because of the publication incentive.
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Source date (UTC): 2023-07-24 13:20:57 UTC
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WHY IS PHILOSOPHY NOW RELEGATED TO THE PAST AS WAS THEOLOGY?
Painful truth: (a) science (truth) and philosophy(choice) are fully demarcated, a process which began with Darwin and ended in the 60s with the failure of the analytic movement’s last attempt to save it. (b) philosophy is still predicated on premises insufficient for it’s ambitions (sets). (c) I’m referred to as a philosopher and a social scientist only because we have not yet fully disambiguated the distinction between the two. But I consider myself a scientist, in all four of the domains: formal, physical(before), behavioral(during), evolutionary(after).
Can one produce a science (epistemology) and resulting logic (paradigm of first principles, grammar, vocabulary) of decidability, and subsequently of testimony (truth), ethics(cooperation), and scale (politics, group strategy), and aesthetics( goods)? Of course. At present, as far as I know, the discipline of philosophy is capable only of integrating findings of science (testimony), into various paradigms of *choice* instead of truth. Truth is settled science. And with that philosophy is limited to the selection of preferences within that which is not false and not irreciprocal (immoral) and not devolutionary (harmful).
However, given that anthropomorphism, mythology, thoeology, philosophy, history, the sciences, the logics place increasing burdens on human knowledge and cognition, and especially burdens on bias and priors, then there will always be those who are trapped within the limits of their abilities to reason by more complex means just as there are those trapped within the limits of their ability to use mathematics. In particular my struggle (our organization’s struggle) is the repetition of the problem of transitioning people from mysticism to empiricism.
However, the tendency to oversimplify to ideal types, or slihgtly better use of sets, is human cognitive nature, while converting from ideal types and sets to series (measurements) and supply vs demand (adversarial equilibria) is somethign that appears very difficult to teach people to do, just as it is difficult to teach them calculus and analysis. Despite that those measures within human experience are much easier to grasp than the abstract relations we use with number systems.
IMO studying philosophy is useful largely in the suppression of human ignorance and error It is not sufficient for the provision of problem solving that has been achieved through the greater complexity of the sciences of testimony.
Source date (UTC): 2023-07-23 12:12:00 UTC
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You have it backward. The postmodern mind seeks to undermine truth, value, judgment and grand narratives to restore premoden subjective value and relativism. The marxist sequence from freud, boaz, marx, to the neomarxists, to postmodernists, neocons, anti family feminists, libertarians, to pc, and woke are anti western revolutions whether classical or modern. T
he late medievals and moderns that gradually restored western classical civ after the reintroduction of aristotle in 1200, with the sequence of literacy, sail, agrarian, commercial, financial, empirical, scientific and industrial revolutions inspired a sequence of counter revolutions in the marxist sequence just as the greeks and romans inspired the jewish, christian, muslim counter revolutions.
What we call reason empiricism and science evolved out of proto and early european law that prohibited authority limiting leadership to decidability possible onle from the evidence of adversarial competition.
Our western art, consistently superior, is a product of adversarial competition in craft(tech), design(asethetic, naturalism,supernormalism), and metaphysical narrative (meaning, heroism, excellence, truth, beauty as contribution to the commons ).
The marxist sequence is a degenerate hate movement against the indo europeans, the classicals, and yhe modern.
The science of measuring relative quality of art is consistent with all other western traditions: the conquest of man and nature to transform the world into a garden by techne.
It does not matter if the common people know the technes – only that they are inpired to heroism, truth, excellence and beauty by transforming of victimhood into agency, defeating the dark forces of man nature time and ignorance through their heroism -thus the birth of tragedy, and the making of western civilization.
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Source date (UTC): 2023-07-23 10:50:19 UTC
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I dont stress about claims of credibility from those who perceive their involuntary indoctrination as voluntar personal innovation. 😉 Postmodern destruction is a seductive primitivism. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2023-07-23 05:51:48 UTC
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You are, in my limited experience with you, you are intelligent, moral, empathic and consistent in searching for the good, with limited, but some reluctant resistance to the true. Much of how we interpet wisdom literature is dependent upon our individual responsibilities. And if…
Source date (UTC): 2023-07-23 03:16:52 UTC
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It isn’t possible to understand much of what I say without the requisite knowledge to do so (and I’m certain the community will agree. Even then it’s often extremely difficult to understand the depth of those implications. So while we understand that you would not expect to comprehend any other technical discipline, the fact that we have ‘scienced’ what you’d consider morality, conflicts with the normative presumption that we are capable of such discourse.
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Source date (UTC): 2023-07-21 20:18:57 UTC
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–“The crime of Historical Revisionism, or any revisionism, has to consist of converting from truth to lies. It’s simply History when you’re converting from lies to truth. The same applies for moral claims: you’re either converging on the natural law of cooperation – or you’re…
Source date (UTC): 2023-07-21 17:15:01 UTC
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Good man for giving her the truth and the choice. She shouldnt have married him with that knowledg. If she did then deal with it and due your duty like so many have before.
Source date (UTC): 2023-07-20 20:09:19 UTC
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