Scientism & Philosophical Arguments

[Esquilax]

"When we hear of some new attempt to explain reasoning or language or choice naturalistically, we ought to react as if we were told that someone had squared the circle or proved the square root of 2 to be rational: only the mildest curiosity is in order-how well has the fallacy been concealed?" - Peter Geach

"I'm going to use a quote in the hopes that its flowery language might conceal the fact that it simply presupposes that there can never be a naturalistic explanation for the things listed, using dismissive mockery as a replacement for an actual explanation of why that might be, and moreover that I've essentially borrowed someone elses' presupposition that doesn't adequately address what was actually said. My response is little more than "well, nuh uh!" dressed up in fancy condescension... but I really, really hope you won't notice that."- Chad Wooters.