Comments | philosophy: No idea what anything is without philosophers telling me.

nanikore in philosophy

No idea what anything is without philosophers telling me.

Feb 01, 2006 18:48

[Edit: OKAY GUYS, here is the same kind of objection that was voiced to cabrutus, except that time it was voiced by sisyphus http://community.livejournal.com/real_philosophy/300334.html?thread=9769518#t9769518 ...It's a bit more eloquent but basically pokes at the same darn thing that I'm poking at ( Read more... )

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nanikore February 2 2006, 03:30:38 UTC

Why, when there's experience already?

dialogic February 2 2006, 03:12:32 UTC

Hahaha, how small is your dick, nanikore?

nanikore February 2 2006, 03:31:49 UTC

How's it goin' at ad hom land?

dialogic February 2 2006, 03:42:50 UTC

Well, thanks.

How are things in Irrelevantville?

nanikore February 2 2006, 03:45:31 UTC

ad hom land is smack dab in the middle of Irrelevantvill, so you should know best

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sisyphus February 2 2006, 03:34:07 UTC

Can you please name which philosophers are telling you to forget all about your experiences because they are all in your head?

Can you please provide references for this 'philosophy of what a dog is?' I'm intrigued by possibilities in this field and would like to subscribe to the newsletter if possible.

nanikore February 2 2006, 03:39:36 UTC

http://community.livejournal.com/philosophy/1369722.html?thread=39554682#t39554682

they can't tell us what justice, truth, meaning, knowledge, goodness, beauty, persons, etc., are. We need philosophy for everything else.

Science do not tell us what those things are, because they don't have to.

The thing is we don't need philosophy to do that either.

essius February 2 2006, 07:52:24 UTC

Also interesting, the lack of rejoinder here: http://community.livejournal.com/real_philosophy/300334.html?thread=9768238#t9768238

nanikore February 2 2006, 07:54:49 UTC

Yep. I saw that back when the thread was going. Sure put a smile on my face.

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mendaciloquent February 2 2006, 03:46:38 UTC

Awesome! You're back! I can almost feel the Quality surging back into the limbs of philosophy.

It was here? nanikore February 2 2006, 03:50:13 UTC

Why don't you ask what people do with philosophy, again?

http://community.livejournal.com/philosophy/1096432.html

mendaciloquent February 2 2006, 04:15:22 UTC

What do you do with happiness?

nanikore February 2 2006, 04:19:38 UTC

What, that's what science is for?

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boyinasuitcase February 2 2006, 04:00:42 UTC

What is philosophy on LJ?

Most philosophy I've come across in these communities seem more like mental masturbation than actual thinking up solutions or explanations for real world problems and phenomena.

*gets up* oops not sitting down any'mo! nanikore February 2 2006, 04:08:01 UTC

If it's some kind of a solution, then I'd tend to think of it as some kind of a science...

Re: *gets up* oops not sitting down any'mo! boyinasuitcase February 2 2006, 04:10:07 UTC

Exactly.

Re: *gets up* oops not sitting down any'mo! unnamed525 February 2 2006, 04:13:35 UTC

Science is empirically testable; logic isn't, but logic is used in coming up with scientific (and engineering) solutions to problems pretty universally. Also, I don't know that we can empirically determine what knowledge is, but that doesn't rule out empirical knowledge, or the utility in gaining a better understanding of knowledge so that we can improve our methods of acquiring it.

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