RE: What's the point of philosophy any more?
March 21, 2018 at 8:12 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2018 at 8:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
A list of dogma asserted would still be asserted dogma even if it managed, or happened... to get something right.
Can you appreciate, at least, that the thrust of philosophy halts as soon as something is taken to be incontrovertibly true, and that we have..based upon our understanding of many given x's in the past...done precisely that. Halted that work, asserted x to be incontrovertibly true, deriding any counter-position? Let's take an example we both agree on. We're both atheists. Goddism was the majority position of philosophy for centuries. Incontrovertably true as demonstrated by logical demonstration after logical demonstration after logical demonstration. Emperically verified by every miraculous this or that.
Can you appreciate, at least, that the thrust of philosophy halts as soon as something is taken to be incontrovertibly true, and that we have..based upon our understanding of many given x's in the past...done precisely that. Halted that work, asserted x to be incontrovertibly true, deriding any counter-position? Let's take an example we both agree on. We're both atheists. Goddism was the majority position of philosophy for centuries. Incontrovertably true as demonstrated by logical demonstration after logical demonstration after logical demonstration. Emperically verified by every miraculous this or that.
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