Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Nov 20, 2025 8:47 am
Fairy wrote: ↑Thu Nov 20, 2025 8:20 am
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Nov 20, 2025 7:59 am
For 2500 years, philosophers* had not been above to nail what is fundamental to reality.
* including Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz, and the like.
This is why Kant introduced his Copernican Revolution that it make more sense for objects to be grounded on the human conditions rather reality is grounded on things-in-themselves absolutely independent of the human conditions.
Do you have any justification reality exists absolutely independent of the human conditions?
Try??
There is no way you can do it other than rely on speculations using the your human conditions within the collective human conditions.
Do you have any justification reality exists absolutely as relative finite human conditions?
Relatively is baked into the very fabric of reality. Relative beliefs of wrong and right being absolute are absurd.
I did not use 'absolutely' but that reality [all there is] is relative to finite human conditions.
If we take reality [all there is], i.e. the whole cosmology of the universe and human therein, their reality can only be justified empirically by the scientific framework and system, physics, chemistry and biology. To do philosophy, we need to ground on scientific world;
What a Truly idiotic and stupid thing to say, and claim.
The so-called, 'scientific world', has led you human beings astray on quite some number of occasions, and 'it', still, is, in the days when this is being written. For example, there are quite a number of people, in the so-called 'scientific world', who, still, believe, and who, still, insist, that the Universe begun, and is expanding.
So, once more, 'I' will suggest that you human beings seek out, obtain, and gain the irrefutable proof, before you even begin to start wanting to claim things.
To do so-called 'philosophy' you human beings certainly do not need to ground on 'scientific world', at all? And, because most of you human beings do not get fully informed on the 'scientific world', you tend to just accept whatever 'those' in 'that world' say, and claim.
Also, you do not 'do philosophy'. you either have a love-of-learning, or you do not.
The answers to the Truly meaningful questions, in Life, or the Truth of things, is not actually grounded on the 'scientific world', because if they were founded on the 'scientific world', only, then 'this' would explain why it is taking you human beings so, so long to 'catch up', HERE.
'Philosophy', being the 'love-of-wisdom', is grounded upon always being curios, and, upon always consistently wanting to learn. And, uncovering and knowing Right, from Wrong, and, Truths, from Falsehoods, is actually found in 'logical reasoning', instead, and not upon the 'empirical scientific world', actually.
Meaningful answers, and Truths, in Life, come from 'logical reasoning', and not from materialistic matter, itself.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Nov 20, 2025 7:59 am
If you 'think' and speculate, there is more to the above, that is only a thought which has to come from humans individually or collectively.
Unless such thoughts can be verified to actual empirical reality, it remain a speculation, and if it is related to possible experience, it is an illusion.
- Philosophy, as I shall understand the word, is something intermediate between theology and science.
Which explains why you have missed, and misunderstood, so much, here.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Nov 20, 2025 7:59 am
Like theology, it consists of speculations on matters as to which definite knowledge has, so far, been unascertainable; but like science, it appeals to human reason rather than to authority, whether that of tradition or that of revelation.
But it does not matter one iota. If 'confirmation bias' has 'entered', then it does not matter how thorough an experiment is, nor how many experiments are made, the 'conclusion' will be 'doctored', even if unknowingly or unwittingly.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Nov 20, 2025 7:59 am
All definite knowledge – so I should contend – belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology.
'This' goes to show and prove just how blind 'this one' can be at times.
How many times throughout human history has so-called 'definite knowledge', which would be claimed to be, 'belonging to science', has ended up being False, Wrong, Inaccurate, and/or Incorrect?
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Nov 20, 2025 7:59 am
But between theology and science there is a No Man’s Land, exposed to attack from both sides; and this No Man’s Land is philosophy. Almost all the questions of most interest to speculative minds are such as science cannot answer, and the confident answers of theologians no longer seem so convincing as they did in former centuries. Bertrand Russell (p. xiii)[/list]
Who cares what 'this one' human being has said, or claimed?
If it can not back up and support 'its claim', irrefutably so, then what it claimed is just another unsubstantiated claim to add to your growing list.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Nov 20, 2025 7:59 am
For any thought to be realistic or possibly realistic its umbilical cord must be connected to the empirical world, if not, it is going beyond to
la la land. Despite being unrealistic, venturing into la la land has psychological advantages, like how a fictitious Santa Claus is useful to parents, children and business.
Not that you ever would, because you are incapable of, please explain how "santa claus" is, supposedly, 'useful' to parents, and children, exactly.
Obviously, the people of businesses take advantages when they can 'sell' things. As the only reason for people to own businesses is to take money from 'others' and to make 'monetary profits'.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Nov 20, 2025 7:59 am
There are loads of psychological reasons why individual humans like to extend beyond the empirical world and that of possible experience. This is driven by the terrible existential crisis which is natural in the majority of humans.
LOL, once again, 'this one' 'tries' to 'project' what it used to do, on to and in to 'others'.
LOL The majority of you human beings do not have any so-called 'terrible existential crisis', at all. However, obviously you had 'that kind of existential crisis' "yourself", "immanuel can", but 'this' in no way at all means that others have.