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Old 25th November 2012, 05:19 PM   #113
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Originally Posted by TeapotCavalry View Post
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.
What is irritating is people criticising skeptics for being skeptical of the claims of philosophy although no evidence for its value is ever produced.

All we have are claims that everything we do is somehow philosophical.

I can go one further and claim that my discipline of aaargism is everything that ever worked in any way whatsoever. Therefore aaargism is important and everyone should respect the power of aaargism and aaargers because without aaargism, nothing would work.
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