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Underdetermination of Scientific Theory

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-underdetermination/

An especially pertinent section quoted below:
2.1 Holist Underdetermination: The Very Idea ( Read more... )

Оригинал взят у arkadiy_maler в Катехон-ТВ: "Влияние либеральной интеллигенции на революцию 1917 года"

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В программе Катехон-ТВ выступает - Федор Александрович Гайда, историк, публицист, кандидат исторических наук, доцент исторического факультета МГУ.

Тема - "Влияние либеральной интеллигенции на революцию 1917 года"- либералы и левые: различия и сходства ( Read more... )

No proof can be offered to any particular metaphysical model via any means. It’s a matter of practical efficacy, not metaphysical truth. Neither paucity nor abundance of imagination points to such truth, i.e. “I can / can’t imagine it being any other way, therefore it is true / false ( Read more... )

Memetics is a sham model. It does not reflect reality. Memetics assumes boundaries around memes where there is NONE. There is no real boundary because how each supposed meme is "seen" by each mind is subjective in nature. Pseduoscience. "Memeticists" can pump out all kinds of numbers based on this sham model.

The problem with using an article of disbelief as an article of faith is just that ( Read more... )

Inside the cult of transhumanism lay the cult of machine-aided immortality. They think that they could somehow transfer their consciousness into a machine and live forever that way ( Read more... )

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What is philosophy ( Read more... )

Non-English-language posts are, as far as I am concerned, welcome. (Am open to revising this position in face of popular revolt.) However, posts must of course contain or at least aspire to philosophy; also, duplicate posts will be deleted.