RE: Debate with a Christian
March 10, 2014 at 1:15 pm
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2014 at 1:24 pm by discipulus.)
(March 10, 2014 at 1:10 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(March 10, 2014 at 1:05 pm)Kitanetos Wrote: I think you know what I meant. Air does not take up space in the conventional sense whereby other things are blocked from occupying the same space.
oh, well.... then... nothing takes up space... everything can be displaced!
(March 10, 2014 at 1:08 pm)discipulus Wrote: Guys....logical positivism....empiricism is self refuting and has been all but abandoned for roughly half a century as a tenable investigative methodology by philosophers.
You all seem to think it is alive and well...
Need I say it again....? It is SELF REFUTING.
I like it that you put uninteresting boundaries in some statements...
"tenable investigative methodology by philosophers".
I wasn't aware that philosophers performed something called "investigation".
Or are you now wanting to say that people with a PhD (Philosophy Doctorate), regular scientists, don't use empiricism to arrive at their results and conclusions?
Empiricism is not something you "use", it is a theory of knowledge. Empiricists "use" their senses, instruments, or any other tool pertinent to the object of their investigation. I use the terms "investigative methodology" and "theory of knowledge" synonomously which was ambiguous.
Philosophers of science investigate various things pertinent to science, philosophers of history investigate various things pertinent to history as well and so on and so forth.
