RE: What's the point of philosophy any more?
March 21, 2018 at 8:52 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2018 at 8:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't know why you would think that. OFC I think reason is important. We ask questions..reason provides answers.....but it can provide more than one answer, an incorrect answer, or sometimes..flat out no answer.
You or I casting our lot in with one answer (or one authority, even) out of many doesn't demand that we deny the existence of those other answers, authorities... or that we assert our answer is incontrovertibly true.
We think it is, because x and y and z...but hey..we could be wrong.
We've been refining our rules for some time in response to that, so that our system stops producing anomalous conclusions due to some issue of implication. I mentioned this earlier when I was talking about future temporal events being the cause for past temporal events - but I;ll say it again.
Unless the current version of the system is the final revision and no improvement can be made..even the laws of implication are still fair game for heterodox positions.
You or I casting our lot in with one answer (or one authority, even) out of many doesn't demand that we deny the existence of those other answers, authorities... or that we assert our answer is incontrovertibly true.
We think it is, because x and y and z...but hey..we could be wrong.
(March 21, 2018 at 8:47 pm)polymath257 Wrote: One problem is that there have been many times when people *thought* something to be impossible that later turned out to be possible.
We've been refining our rules for some time in response to that, so that our system stops producing anomalous conclusions due to some issue of implication. I mentioned this earlier when I was talking about future temporal events being the cause for past temporal events - but I;ll say it again.
Unless the current version of the system is the final revision and no improvement can be made..even the laws of implication are still fair game for heterodox positions.
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