FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 2:33 pmDoesn't his whole KFC-buckets thing rest on analytic a posteriori propositions anyway? Why is he arguing over this, is it just because you bad mouthed Kant and that sets him off?
Well, from my perspective, VA has worked out what pretty much the last 60 years of history and philosophy of science has been about, put it into his own words and fooled himself into thinking he has come up with something original. Not that I feel any inclination to do so, but to be fair to VA, there is a lot of that in the history of philosophy. Everyone is contextualising ideas, very few of which cannot be traced back to ancient Greece. His climbing frame of knowledge whateveritis, like Kuhn's paradigms is fundamentally Protagoras' 'Man is the measure of all things'.