Originally Posted by
dafydd
You insist that they are without providing any proof.
Don't mean to be rude, but have you as much as wikied
any of this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_thought
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philoso...ific_reasoning
This is pretty basic stuff Atwill is saying. Scientists don't
need to know it, but this is what science is based on. Might be common sense, but the point is to identify what axioms they are using.
As for the OP, what I detest is when people who self-identify as skeptics claim philosophy to be practically worthless. It is vastly ironic, but also a bit sad.