Recent content by jtveg

Philosophy actually teaches thinking skills. Learning classical logic and forms of argumentation teaches one how to spot fallacious reasoning. It encourages discussion in arguably the hardest topics, where we may never know the answers to. Topics like ethics, origins of everything, what it...

It's sad but fitting that the repercussions are so serious. It is only because we live in a modern complex society that woo believers aren't dying off in droves. If a good dose of: "I told you so" and some pain and suffering to go along with their failed "woo medicine" doesn't convince them...

I think you missed the point that Max Tegmark was actually making: All he is saying is that everything in the universe isn't only described by math but that the universe itself is also entirely like one large mathematical object. Extrapolating or concluding from that, that the supernatural...

Wow! What a list! I bet this guy doesn't half understand half the stuff he's cited let alone read them all. Although I may be wrong. Nevertheless it simply boils down to an argument from ignorance. Basically he's saying: "There are are things science doesn't understand, hasn't yet solved, or...

Mathematics is just a language, (just like English is a language). It is merely the language of size and there is nothing remarkable about it, since we use it to describe our universe, which seems to be regular and following a set of natural laws. Which is in fact perfectly consistent with what...