(March 18, 2014 at 5:01 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:How so?(March 18, 2014 at 9:43 am)shep Wrote: Why do you think being skeptical and lacking belief in things until proven is bad, frodo?
Being skeptical is essential.
I presume that you mean proven empirically? I have nothing against empiricism. I am dead against the narrow minded kind that excludes any other kind of proof.
Skepticism and exclusive empiricism contradict each other.
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