Agnosticism IS the most dishonest position

[The Architect Of Fate]

Scientism is a buzzword used by philosophers to demean actual attempts at knowledge. While their own field has failed spectacularly.

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That said, it's interesting to reflect that in several millennia of trying, philosophy has not solved one single problem of human existence (other than giving professional philosophers an income), whereas science has given us things like flush toilets and vaccines.

Boru

I wouldnt go that far with philosophy. I do however think Belaqua is a stereotype *abuser* of philosophy, actually giving it a bad name.

My point however was, Belaqua always drags any conversation down to philosophy, mostly ancient or medieval, then hides behind the statements of those philosophers and the fact that you can turn around arguing in philosophy forever (= he never has to accept he was wrong). As soon as you are going to cricitize any of the philosophies he is bringing to the table, he is going to defer to the original philosopher. He is a (pseudo) intellectual coward.

As expected now he's demeaning science .If he thinks it's so useless he should the hell off the computer science made and go find a philosopher who will sit in his armchair and opine one into existence .