RE: Matt Dillahunty v. Sye Ten Bruggencate
June 3, 2014 at 11:28 pm
(This post was last modified: June 3, 2014 at 11:31 pm by MindForgedManacle.)
Sye was a shit-eating moron like usual. The quote mines were so obvious I can't even believe he doesn't know he's doing it.
While Sye certainly didn't win the debate, I wasn't all that impressed by Matt's philosophical case. Foundherentism being mentioned was nice, but he didn't seem express his case for it too well. Also, I don't think he shouldn't have gone with a Correspondence theory of truth (even though I kind of like them). A deflationary theory or semantic theory - from the little I've read of them - seem more apt to deal with the criticisms people like Sye raise.
Matt was correct at the end that Sye and all these other similar Presuppositionalists are just engaged in Kindergarten Philosophy, more specifically, Kindergarten Epistemology and Kindergarten Metaphysics of Logic. That's why philosophers who here Sye and his ilk make these arguments usually just ignore them, because aside from outright stating he cannot possibly be wrong, it reflects an absurdly ignorant understanding of the relevant topics given the Presupps' arrogant assertions about these topics.
While Sye certainly didn't win the debate, I wasn't all that impressed by Matt's philosophical case. Foundherentism being mentioned was nice, but he didn't seem express his case for it too well. Also, I don't think he shouldn't have gone with a Correspondence theory of truth (even though I kind of like them). A deflationary theory or semantic theory - from the little I've read of them - seem more apt to deal with the criticisms people like Sye raise.
Matt was correct at the end that Sye and all these other similar Presuppositionalists are just engaged in Kindergarten Philosophy, more specifically, Kindergarten Epistemology and Kindergarten Metaphysics of Logic. That's why philosophers who here Sye and his ilk make these arguments usually just ignore them, because aside from outright stating he cannot possibly be wrong, it reflects an absurdly ignorant understanding of the relevant topics given the Presupps' arrogant assertions about these topics.
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