(January 19, 2018 at 8:02 pm)FireFromHeaven Wrote:(January 19, 2018 at 7:57 pm)chimp3 Wrote: I would argue that philosophy is a good way to argue morality, ethics, law, etc. It is useless as a way to determine the nature of reality. The limitation of the human mind was demonstrated by Galileo when he looked up with a telescope. Since then, science has relied on instrumentation to see beyond what our mammal/ primate senses can perceive.
Ok. I don't think this is a strong argument since we can only understand the results of our experiments and observations with our minds, but it is an argument. Do you know of anyone who develops these ideas at greater length and replies to opposing views?
I never claimed we do not try to understand data with our mind. Philosophy is using the mind alone. Philosophy provides no data to consider other than what humans imagine. Science with instrumentation detects what we can not see. Consider LIGO and the detection of gravity waves.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!
