RE: Can I just say, and I'm just being honest...
April 5, 2018 at 4:38 pm
(This post was last modified: April 5, 2018 at 4:43 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(April 5, 2018 at 3:49 pm)Little lunch Wrote:(April 4, 2018 at 12:56 pm)Hammy Wrote: My guess is that anything "smart" that comes out of his mouth is an idea he has stolen from somebody else.
When you see him have a conversation with someone who actually is smart, he quickly shows himself to be a complete moron.
Or maybe I just have high standards
I've seen his talk with Sam Harris and he comes across as a real dick.
But if you think he's a complete moron then it's obvious you've not really looked into him at all.
Actually if you think he isn't one, I guess you haven't really looked into him.
He says there are two different positions on truth, the Newtonian one and the Darwinian one, and neither of those things have ANYTHING to do with truth! One is physics and the other is biology! And he conflates theories of truth and theories of epistemological justification too! Anyone non-moronic who has read up on philosophy would understand this stuff. He has read up on it and hasn't understood any of it, because he's a moron.
Being a pseudo-intellectual that doesn't understand stuff you read up on, makes you a moron rather intelligent. At least that's the way I see it.
Either that or he's just doing a really good job of coming across as someone who doesn't even understand the very basics of the stuff he reads about and talks about!
I get that he's well read and educated... but whether he actually understands the stuff he reads about is another matter. I guess we have different views on what intelligence is.