(January 3, 2013 at 2:13 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: That's a very interesting philosophy. What do you call it?
Scientific method is a tool, not a philosophy, get over it. You can have any "philosophy" you want, but do not pretend it can be, or should be placed in the same category as a tool. One is a personal like, and the other is a tool.
I hate "philosophy" because it allows people to get married to it. Scientific method requires you to kick the tires and insure quality of data. Philosophy is the same naked assertion category as religion and politics.
You want to use an outdated archaic word, be my guest, but the computer you are typing on is not the result of a mere "philosophy". Some people actually got off their asses and tinkered with shit and studied shit to put you in the position of having a computer to type on.
"Philosophy" has the same stupid dangerous divisive baggage religion and politics do. It is nothing but another childish way of saying "I like it so I will go with it because it feels right".
In "The Greatest Show On Earth" By Richard Dawkins he explains why Plato is the most responsible for fucking up history of human use of reason and logic and it is precisely because of Plato's "philosophy" of "if you just think about something you can find it's "essence". Plato was NOT, contrary to popular belief, advocating questioning in any pragmatic sense. The place where Plato fucked up with his "philosophy" was that he didn't have any clue what quality control was or how important it is now that we have modern scientific method which he did not have back then.
Plato poisoned humanity because he didn't understand that merely having a "philosophy" which is what his "philosophy of essence" was, did not have any quality control parameters.
That horrible "philosophy" became the building block of all sorts of credulity that humans used in politics and religion, the "philosophy" of "just think about it". THAT is why I hate that word and wish people would stop using it.
A very simple thing to say is "I have this thing I like, so I go with it", and leave it at that. But "philosophy" falsely conflates it to some stupid woo level on par with religion and politics.
