(October 9, 2013 at 11:56 pm)Esquilax Wrote: It's also not a way to determine existential claims like Swordy is trying to say it is, in fairness.
I concur, but others that subscribe to a different epistemology would disagree. Regardless, that doesn't make philosophy as whole useless, especially given that science rests upon philosophical premises.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell