RE: Anecdotal Evidence
November 2, 2016 at 8:44 pm
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2016 at 8:54 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
Meh, I disagree. In my experience most debate involves correcting the opponent's fallacies... and I think it's worthy to not allow misrepresentations and sophistry to be given free reign.
...and it's worthy of my eyes to see William Lane Craig reduced to a bumbling mess in a debate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiJnCQuPiuo
Absolutely destroyed.
P.S. I also love philosophy and philosophy isn't experimental.
I love science but logic is even more paramount. Science is mostly about inductive logic but both deductive and inductive logic are vitally important. Science wouldn't work without logic... hell, nothing would even make any sense and the world could not exist if it were not for logic. If the universe as a whole was like the quantum world reality wouldn't work. We live in a rational universe. A purposeless universe, full of irrational beings, but a rational universe nonetheless. And hell, even mathematicians is absolutely completely logical. It's just logic with numbers. Logic is everything. Quite literally. I'm not talking about the concept of logic, I'm talking about the logical absolutes and the fact there can't not be logicality because if there wasn't there logically would have to not be logicality... there's no such thing as an illogical contradiction, only a logical contradiction, etc, etc. There has to be something because there is literally no alternative. This is the case regardless of if I or anyone else is here to conceptualize it because if it wasn't the case it logically wouldn't be which means it would be, logically, etc. Paradox.
...and it's worthy of my eyes to see William Lane Craig reduced to a bumbling mess in a debate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiJnCQuPiuo
Absolutely destroyed.
P.S. I also love philosophy and philosophy isn't experimental.
I love science but logic is even more paramount. Science is mostly about inductive logic but both deductive and inductive logic are vitally important. Science wouldn't work without logic... hell, nothing would even make any sense and the world could not exist if it were not for logic. If the universe as a whole was like the quantum world reality wouldn't work. We live in a rational universe. A purposeless universe, full of irrational beings, but a rational universe nonetheless. And hell, even mathematicians is absolutely completely logical. It's just logic with numbers. Logic is everything. Quite literally. I'm not talking about the concept of logic, I'm talking about the logical absolutes and the fact there can't not be logicality because if there wasn't there logically would have to not be logicality... there's no such thing as an illogical contradiction, only a logical contradiction, etc, etc. There has to be something because there is literally no alternative. This is the case regardless of if I or anyone else is here to conceptualize it because if it wasn't the case it logically wouldn't be which means it would be, logically, etc. Paradox.