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[Ccnet-checkins] seminal air raid
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From: Ann G. <cw...@fb...> - 2006-10-08 19:33:55
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <img alt="" src="cid:par...@fb..." height="323" width="608"><br> Thus, things will have to be changed until they produce accurate predictions.<br> So is the surface of a donut, or a saddle, or an idealized version of the rolling hills of your favorite pastoral scene. The neuroscience tack is really just a defensive ploy to ward off the eternal charges that utilitarinism is simply a euphemism for an authoritarian imposition of values.<br> His country is overstretched, losing economic momentum, losing world leadership, and losing the philosophical plot. Conversely, if a hypotheis is corroborated with a positive answer, the theories behind it stand validated until a hypothesis receives a negative answer. Somehow the fact that he considers envy to be a principal element of human happiness does not place very severe limits on the harmoniousness of individual happiness.<br> If our only experience of the world is of an existent reality, such that something uncreated or destroyed is literally unimaginable, the superfluity of religion becomes very evident.<br> If one does not wish to be this deterministic about it, perhaps one should allow more latitute to individuals to discover their own conception of happiness. Freedom is not an act or a thought, but rather a set of conditions under which action and thought occur. To some extent this seems to cut against the basic scientific impulse to simplify, to generalize, which is what a law or an equation generally does. But the only way to determine whether it is simply a theory to fit the facts or whether it is truly generalizable is to test it against unknown facts via prediction.<br> Now do it with another pair of points, but make sure they meet somewhere else.<br> Math is all about abstraction, about generalizing the stuff you can get a sense of to apply to crazy situations about which you otherwise have no insight whatsoever.<br> The neuroscience tack is really just a defensive ploy to ward off the eternal charges that utilitarinism is simply a euphemism for an authoritarian imposition of values.<br> The intuitive picture is that of a smooth surface. But in reality the sameness of the universe upon which science is predicated is not a a sameness at any particular moment, but rather a sameness of behavior.<br> In other, the goal is not to not be wrong but to achieve a definitive positive answer.<br> Nor does it constitute a tyranny of the majority, because he claims that in an ideal utilitarian society the happiness of the most unhappy would be considered of pre-eminent importance. in our society, the State. But we shouldn't forget an equally important lesson, articulated most forcefully by Nietzsche: The health of a person and a people also depends vitally on the capacity to forget.<br> But we shouldn't forget an equally important lesson, articulated most forcefully by Nietzsche: The health of a person and a people also depends vitally on the capacity to forget.<br> Slightly more abstractly, think of a rubber sheet stretched and twisted into any configuration you like so long as there are no holes, tears, creases, black holes or sharp corners.<br> Nor is the notion that rape is bad an example of state coercion.<br> If our only experience of the world is of an existent reality, such that something uncreated or destroyed is literally unimaginable, the superfluity of religion becomes very evident. In that case, of course, political theory is entirely superfluous, which is why this is all a waste of time. Do this with every single point on the sphere, each point and its antipodal point meeting each other but meeting no other points.<br> <br> </body> </html> |
