The sorry plight into which philosophy has fallen, was the result of
philosophy having been expected, and its being deluded into claiming,
to serve the same ends as science. It was expected to, and foolishly
claimed to, seek true and certain factual knowledge. This is a snare
philosophy has to extricate itself from. Unfortunately, this
pernicious confusion of philosophy with science has confounded all the
terms needed for discussing the question: 'knowledge', 'truth',
'understanding', 'reason', etc., all of these terms suffer ambiguity
and can lead to much obfuscation and misunderstanding unless we pay
careful attention to the special usage of an individual writer.
Because I aim at a radical revision of our understanding of these
terms I am painfully aware of the fact that I am especially liable to
be misunderstood when using them. Link: http://www.philosophos.com/philosophy_article_112.html
Re: SR Postulate on Speed of Light ... Look, to you Tim, and David Smith - you're still misunderstanding me. ... It just removes the answer from physics.... wall dividing questions up between philosophy and physics. ...paradoxes - if they are indeed there. ... (sci.physics.relativity)
Re: OT: Gore Hits the Waves with a Massive New Houseboat ... rational arguments to make against her philosophy,... discussions with people over the years to know that your objections to ... modicum of intelligence would have no trouble understanding that I am ...misunderstanding of what she said, and reading into it things that are ... (rec.arts.theatre.musicals)
Re: OT: Gore Hits the Waves with a Massive New Houseboat ... rational arguments to make against her philosophy,... her philosophy have a good probability of being based on a ... modicum of intelligence would have no trouble understanding that I am ...misunderstanding of what she said, and reading into it things that are ... (rec.arts.theatre.musicals)
Re: Faith and cricket ... >> Samarth, as you perhaps know, there are 6 schools of hindu philosophy.... This parmatma (supreme reality) is quite different ... > understanding of it is by certain expressions in the material world, ... > reflections of these expressions.... (rec.sport.cricket)
Re: The wicked untruths of our church leaders ...Dawkins does an excellent ... job of explaining the process of evolutionary development and I find ... imposing a human philosophy on a process for our own better ...understanding But there is no physical line and any ... (uk.religion.christian)
