simon

This system says, if you have joint goal G, then you should X.  That is the only way to be prescriptive – to say you ought to do something – that doesn’t violate the fact/value distinction.

@Simon – Are you attempting to get an ought from an is?

@Simon thank you, great link. I listened to the whole thing, and my favorite episode is #7 because it presents a nice overview. The other episodes are also great, while I’d add that #1 through #6 are basically in order of their historical occurrence.

@Simon

You got me. Good one.

Let me change my assertion a bit, though, by taking the geographical reference out. I’m not sure why the U.S. should even belong in NATO since it is European nations which need to worry about Russia invading and, as I pointed out, their alliance, with the U.S. gone, still would contain two nuclear weapons powers and,…[Read more]

@Simon

Well, the Samurai believed in some mix of Shinto (a religion that’s all about spirits) and Zen, a religion often referred to by people using the other sense of “spiritual.”

They were spiritual, no doubt about it. Obviously, not in the New Agey, mentalism, pyramid power, food/practice wooery sense.

Spiritual Principles of the Samurai

@Simon

To be clear, I don’t deny that scientism is a “thing,” or that reliance solely on science and its methods can be taken too far. I know things without resorting to science all the time, and not just my internal states. I know someone is changing a tire on their car outside my window. I know it’s been a while since I went out to see a movie…[Read more]

@Simon

Did you read the link article above that I attached? It talks about how Prince Harry threatens a certain type of man. How do you figure he’s a whiner? It seems to me like you must be a little bit biased towards the royal family. I wonder why is that?

@Simon

I suggest you are using “fallacy” in an informal/colloquial sense, not in the rigorous formal sense of philosophy where fallacies are either formal or informal (sometimes referred to as “verbal fallacies”). Please take seven minutes out of your day to watch a short video and perhaps you’ll stop talking…[Read more]

@Simon

You can have personal knowledge, in a sense. For example, I’m thinking of something. I know what it is. You don’t. No science involved.

Science comes into play when it’s general knowledge we’re talking about, and to establish something as general knowledge you need proof. This is where science comes in. I’m betting you can’t name any…[Read more]

@Simon

From Wikipedia: Scientism is the opinion that science and the scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality.

Let’s accept that “definition” for the sake of argument.

Prove it wrong that science and scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality and…no…[Read more]

@Simon

I don’t think so-called scientism is even a fallacy. It is neither a formal fallacy nor a verbal fallacy. Has someone invented or identified a third category of fallacies? Putting an “ism” at the end of a word doesn’t ipso facto create a fallacy or consumerism, optimism, and perfectionism would be fallacies. Many ism words simply denote…[Read more]

@Simon

I think she was anti- the whole thing from the moment she started, because, who wouldn’t be?  Who would want to be a Royal wife?

That’s what everyone assumed about her….but if you watch the Netflix series that’s not AT ALL the case.

Apart from that, he thinks the Royal family doesn’t like Meghan, (*because she’s mixed race*) which is pro…

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