RE: Why all god claims fail.
April 15, 2016 at 9:47 pm
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2016 at 9:48 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(April 15, 2016 at 6:06 pm)abaris Wrote: Philosophy is an idea you elaborate on. It may be the starting point, but if that idea doesn't stand the testing process, it will never turn into science.I do not disagree. We are after all talking about first principles. A scientist doesn't need to know the first principles to do his work. He only needs to do what works without knowing why it works. He can study objects without reflecting on the problem of universals and group things in categories without reflecting on the ontological status of categories. My question is this. What if he denies the first principles on which he relies to do the work? I say that because that is what is happening when people retreat into nominalism and nominalism is not very friendly to the scientific method.