Recent content by Zetetic

I'll admit that I did not state what I meant very clearly, I wrote it haphazardly and quite late in the day (yes, it was 5:00 am and I had woken up at 9:00 am the previous day, one is apt to be incoherent in his writing under those circumstances), so if you demand it, I will apologize for...

Which detriments would not exist without religion? Do you consider a rigid ideology to be a religion? Because I think that the real issue is dogmatic coherence to some ideology, but I don't know if this is what you mean by 'religion', because there is no deity in, Anarcho-Capitalism or Stalinism...

:roll: Don't kid yourself about the possible impact the words you type on the internet can have on me or my mood. Now, we can have a good discussion, where you actually give me the benefit of the doubt (assume that what I mean to say is probably reasonable, and if you are unclear about it, ask...

Why doesn't this just make you a Libertarian Anti-theist ? It's basically a libertarian position. So you are Libertarian about anti-theism, as opposed to being Stalinist (a word which I have noticed has been used hyperbolically as of late by Tea baggers who think that Stalin's worst crime was...

Oh, man. I received this from my dad at some point, but I assumed it was like what my mom was reading at the time (Scott Peck, who is an apologist with similarities but seems to have the most diluted possible form of Christianity blended with pop psychology) so I thought it was innocuous and...

This isn't getting anywhere, so I'll try a new approach. I was considering the process of modeling a mathematical problem or object or class of objects as a logical clause or recursive set of such clauses, for instance, as we have in the case of Peano arithmetic. There is a research program...

Or get friends that can recognize when they are being hard-headed and aren't afraid of being wrong, but are afraid of speaking about what they do not know (it is a terrible habit to get in to, and a difficult habit to break). Personally, I can't be very close to someone who has that temperament...

How do you know whether you're looking in a mirror?

"You know, it's possible that there was a canopy of ice over the earth that broke down and melted upon entering the atmosphere causing the Noahic floods."

That physical discovery is fallible does not mean that it is false, so we cannot so easily brush it aside when our process of physical discovery claims that mathematics might be fallible in at least as far as that it is physical. It may be that mathematics is a real general, like the physics of...

This gives a sufficiently accurate take of the matter: http://lesswrong.com/lw/m1/guardians_of_ayn_rand/

Just turned 21, I expected the average age to be closer to 17.

Well, at least some of it is. Evolutionary psychology, neuropsychology, computational sociology, sociobiology, evolutionary sociology all seem to rely on scientific observations. Broadly speaking, the social sciences are meant to scientifically establish patterns of human behavior, to the...

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Where in the introductory statements are you seeing him claim that mathematics is empirical or social? As far as I can tell, in chapter 2 and 3 he is arguing about what Peirce's mathematical philosophy was as opposed to other viewpoints, not about which was correct. That's not what he was...