RE: What's the point of philosophy any more?
March 21, 2018 at 11:42 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2018 at 11:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I can state..as an alleged a priori truth..that your above statement is certainly wrong..simply because I understand the meanings of the word authority and dogmatic.
Stepping out of such inanities for a better rebuttal, I can point out that authority can be but isn't necessarily dogmatic..that the two are neither synonymous in meaning or interchangeable IRL. I hold authority here in my home...for example...but I don't insist, as that authority, that my principles are incontrovertibly true. Or more to the point in regards to our discussion..that while you may have asserted the incontrovertible truth of the principles of your authority - reason (and reason as you see it, no less)....there's no requirement that you do so..it's your own personal dogmatic tick. Meanwhile..those principles have been wrong in the past, and there is strong indication that room exists for improvement of those principles in the present.
Stepping out of such inanities for a better rebuttal, I can point out that authority can be but isn't necessarily dogmatic..that the two are neither synonymous in meaning or interchangeable IRL. I hold authority here in my home...for example...but I don't insist, as that authority, that my principles are incontrovertibly true. Or more to the point in regards to our discussion..that while you may have asserted the incontrovertible truth of the principles of your authority - reason (and reason as you see it, no less)....there's no requirement that you do so..it's your own personal dogmatic tick. Meanwhile..those principles have been wrong in the past, and there is strong indication that room exists for improvement of those principles in the present.
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