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2021-02-28 at 11:45 AM UTC in Have you met the one?I'll marry you in the ass.
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2021-02-28 at 11:44 AM UTC in I hate transsexuals.
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2021-02-28 at 11:42 AM UTC in retards who don't understand science make fun of others for not understanding science
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2021-02-28 at 3:17 AM UTC in retards who don't understand science make fun of others for not understanding science
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2021-02-28 at 3:17 AM UTC in retards who don't understand science make fun of others for not understanding science
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2021-02-28 at 3:16 AM UTC in This forum = Pure hatred for one another
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2021-02-28 at 3:16 AM UTC in Have you met the one?
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2021-02-28 at 1:23 AM UTC in This forum = Pure hatred for one anotherI'm not a racist. Racism is a crime and crimes are for niggers.
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2021-02-28 at 1:15 AM UTC in retards who don't understand science make fun of others for not understanding science
Originally posted by Meikai Empiricism stops at firsthand experience, labs are just a really easy way to communicate that.
You dodged the question again because evading the point and obscurantist sophistry is all you have. You have nothing else in the tank intellectually. Do you understand electronic engineering or electrical engineering?You're the one who tried to define "knowledge", and you did so in an extremely ambiguous fashion. You can't level a definition as an argument (the archetypal semantic argument, for the record) and then balk at the idea of being asked to explain your definition. Especially not when that definition is intended to conflate knowledge and belief. Beliefs are not knowledge. The only people who claim otherwise are trying to convert you to their religion.
Justified true belief is the common working definition of knowledge in academic philosophy.
Whether or not you understand what "justified" or "true" means in this context isn't relevant to the point, which you repeatedly can only dodge and never remotely address, which is that you cannot have knowledge without a belief. Knowledge of some fact is just a belief that you know is true for justifiable reasons.
It literally doesn't matter what mental gymnastics you want to employ about the meaning of justifiability or truth. We don't need to get into epistemic nihilism to point out that your point was dogshit. -
2021-02-28 at 1:08 AM UTC in Have you met the one?PDQ is the best fast food.
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2021-02-28 at 1:07 AM UTC in I hate transsexuals.Kill yourselves.
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2021-02-27 at 11:13 AM UTC in retards who don't understand science make fun of others for not understanding science
Originally posted by Meikai For the record, "empirical evidence" is firsthand experience - one's own observations. It is what underpins the scientific method, and why the scientific method focuses on repeatability. Someone merely writing down their empirical discoveries does not give the reader any empirical evidence to support whatever conclusion they might draw as to the veracity of what they've just read.
"Secondhand empirical evidence" doesn't exist - it subverts the very concept of empiricism. The Bible's Revelation is "secondhand empirical evidence" - so much words on paper, expressing the observations someone else has allegedly made. You know this. You know this, yet you refuse to accept it is also true of your religion.
Empiricism doesn't stop at the lab. Tell me, do you understand electrical engineering? -
2021-02-27 at 11:11 AM UTC in retards who don't understand science make fun of others for not understanding science
Originally posted by Meikai It was a good faith interrogation of what you consider the epistemic "justifications" for knowledge and a request for clarification of what you meant by "true belief", not a "semantic argument".
Yes, it was a plebeian take. Plebe.
Yes yours was a plebian take because it's irrelevant what the definition of justified or true is, because the subject was you nitpicking the word "belief" as if it is always equivalent to religious faith, which it isn't.
You are trying to equate not having personally surveyed a subject but believing it's experts as being equivalent to religious faith. Which is a pleb reply because it was literally already done on and satirized by Always Sunny like 12 years ago.
So yes you are a pleb. You had no response once your stupid little argument got destroyed and now you're throwing a fit. Sit down and shut up. -
2021-02-27 at 8:34 AM UTC in This forum = Pure hatred for one anotherI'm a nuclear hate reactor and I'm on meltdown 24/7
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2021-02-27 at 8:32 AM UTC in Have you met the one?Anal gay love brigade
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2021-02-27 at 8:30 AM UTC in retards who don't understand science make fun of others for not understanding science
Originally posted by Meikai Aging is actually caused by observation. We are quantum beings and our wave function collapses only when observed. We literally would live forever if we socially isolated.
That represents a garbage understanding of quantum physics.
If you're still in a state of superposition, your wavefunction would still evolve and the branches of the wavefunction where you are alive would diminish to virtually nothing. When observed, you would be observed dead. -
2021-02-27 at 8:27 AM UTC in retards who don't understand science make fun of others for not understanding science
Originally posted by Meikai Speaking of deliberately low IQ takes… what makes a belief "justified"? According to scientific thought, it is empirical evidence. You will note, of course, that "a study purporting to contain the observations of others" is not "empirical evidence" - it is, if it is to be believed, secondhand. Unless you repeat an experiment, your belief in the results of an experiment someone else has performed cannot be said to be "justified" within an empirical context.
And by "true belief", do you mean "belief based in truth" or the "unwavering faith of a true believer"? If the former, "truth" must first be known to claim your belief is based in it. You can see how defining knowledge as "belief based in knowledge of what is true" is somewhat tautological, yes? If the latter, it has no place in a discussion of knowledge: if something is known, faith (unwavering or otherwise) is not required.
Tut tut. Your plebeian takes bore me.
> Makes 2 paragraph semantic argument that amounts to "what even is words?"
> Accuses someone else of a plebian take.
What do you think counts as "empirical evidence"? -
2021-02-26 at 12:57 PM UTC in Have you met the one?
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2021-02-26 at 12:50 PM UTC in retards who don't understand science make fun of others for not understanding science
Originally posted by Meikai Your "beliefs", eh? At least you're finally talking about it in terms of faith and religion. This is an improvement. I approve.
Another deliberately low IQ take.
Knowledge = justified true belief. Just because someone uses the word "belief" doesn't mean it's a matter of faith. -
2021-02-26 at 12:48 PM UTC in retards who don't understand science make fun of others for not understanding scienceCan you explain the way your plumbing works or do you just trust a guy with credentials proving he does understand it, to fix your pipes? Can you explain how an aircraft's stabilizing gyro works? Can you still trust aircraft.
OP's post is idiotic.
The idiot who thinks their plumber's license is a Zionist conspiracy is definitely far dumber than someone who doesn't know how to do plumbing but trusts a plumber for good reason.
