-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/2016 09:42 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Here's a fine ("useful") distinction which jumps out this very day:
" Reason is slippery because language is. Reason can easily become rationalization and discerning the difference is the task of true philosophy. " Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson on Petre Tutea of Romania
http://www.dailystormer.com/the-orthodox-nationalist-the-thoughts-of-p etre-tutea/
That's
odd. I thought the task of "true philosophy" was to evaluate the internal consistency of logical statements, in a context where physical evidence or relevance to material situations is not considered. Or is that mathematics? The barrier between the two gets a bit fuzzy when Goedel's work gets dragged in, proving that proofs prove nothing. Rationalization normally means arguing backward toward a preconceived conclusion, in a process where logical contradictions and discarding or misrepresenting physical data are permissible - usually to justify or prove arbitrary and/or emotionally motivated propositions. That seems very much like philosophy to me. On the other hand, the task of science is to test well defined assertions about physical processes by attempting to falsify them with observational data or experimental results contradicting those assertions. Where does hitching "reason" to the material world get you? Bang, zoom, to the Moon, Alice! :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJYRPB7AAoJEECU6c5Xzmuqy/YIALHPzktTIgCx4IzldPgx/zQM P2JsyqxTN3gmfdxWA2P3lm0ab1t7qr1j+QxQQSj1dMdRK8bT8Siuxm+Au+DMUERY p+6ozOsXPS3jdurVuCDK/rm0ikKwmkiBvuwL9ovEGXGqhUQr61XroYX4bO/YDpRH lILvibSLDQZ1s0L204Rjh9EWMmSQu5ELBsQJ4KMkv+8BEWaDXwops/bw5swPqjLz 4ZF2Xhd98Ff+AAWmPbfgJ9nr4bz218AMkQn3q+/wdXthplE7GY7M6mWyh/DaCNpu Pg0RiA/pD4b282O6kGE10emqcyTq7ZINT53SV4GS7vj3HdrJjGbzNZQHJtSvweQ= =kgvO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----