Well - 10/10 for being patronising, but
0/10 for progress, making any salient or relavent, or, indeed, counter points.

All debate, however - scientologic and philisolophical - is just semantic - agreed.

Well done on reading a book with long words, though - you'll be telling me the more exams you pass the more clever it makes you, next.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:29, 1 reply)

:( I guess you weren't trolling
Still, I don't know what L Ron Hubbard has to do with all this.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:38, closed)

He's the one who married that peasant woman.
But that aside - I'm yet to see this "mighty beat down using your scientific realism stick".
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 14:40, closed)

Meh.
This was a lot more fun when I suspected you were kidding. Now I realise I've ended up bickering about the nature of truth on a comedy website, my heart's not really in it anymore.

Besides, as you've pointed out, mutual confirmation bias means neither of us will ever concede anyway.

If you're interested, I'd recommend Stathis Psilios' book on Scientific Realism. While some of his own ideas are a bit of a stretch, it's a totally non-masturbatory, very fair minded, and a good overview of the various arguments in the philosophy of science.

Even if you're not interested, you should definitely get a copy of Paul Boghossian's Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism. It is 100 pages of pure gold, and the best demolition of an argument I have ever seen.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 15:16, closed)

I mean,
phwoar, I'll show you my mighty stick if you show me yours. Fnarr.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Wed 18 Jan 2012, 15:19, closed)