RE: The Category Error of Scientism
January 8, 2014 at 9:44 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2014 at 9:52 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(January 8, 2014 at 9:30 pm)MarxRaptor Wrote: That made about as much sense as post-modernism.Then you do not understand post-modernism.
(January 8, 2014 at 8:33 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: What? Is this just nitpicking about the language science uses?Not at all. Just because everyday language is convenient does not mean it reflects the underlying reality of what we describe. The problem is that some AF members seem incapable or unwilling to distinguish between the two distinct categories of being: mental and physical.
(January 8, 2014 at 5:39 pm)rasetsu Wrote: More proof that you don't know your ass from a hole in the ground!Changing your user name doesn't make you any less of a cunt.
(January 8, 2014 at 6:29 pm)mralstoner Wrote:I agree. Science can, and should, inform our decisions. I used the word 'support' in the sense that it cannot serve as the foundation for a moral system.(January 8, 2014 at 4:25 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: ....Nor can scientific findings, like evolutionary processes, be used to support any moral philosophy....scientific findings definitely will be used in support of moral philosophy. But that said, no amount of scientific information, or moral philosophy derived thereof, can make such a philosophy desirable for you...