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Why do people shit on logical positivism for being self refuting in an upfront way? Why is it better to be a Hegelian or Kantian who postpones the crucial piece of self refutation on page 5107 of a 10,000 page obscurantist philosophical work (out of ten)?
Or nobody shits on Plato or Aristotle for straight up talking absolute shit.
Also I could bring up the Munchhausen trilemma like I do every time but I'm sure you know what I'll say
>>1140065
>expecting everything to be logically provable.
The Munchausen Trilemma assumes epistemology is perfectly rational which is nonsense. Foundationally, most of what we assume is simple habit because we're animals.
>>1140106
Well then fine. If some stuff is unfalsifiable then fine. If someone wants to make their own unfalsifiable house of cards then that's fine.
Now explain why the fuck my statement "Murder is bad because the sky is blue" is bad. Now explain why academic institutions say some unfalsifiable shit is good and others bad. Now explain why there is no philosophical department of the aesthetics of doughnuts.
My answer to the last one. Pseudo intellectual philosophers who have gained zero increased...
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>>1140191
>Now explain why the fuck my statement "Murder is bad because the sky is blue" is bad. Now explain why academic institutions say some unfalsifiable shit is good and others bad. Now explain why there is no philosophical department of the aesthetics of doughnuts.
Because all that stuff doesn't contribute to our survival
Was it justifiable?
>>1137753
It Slavs, Anglos and Marxists yes. To normal human beings no.
>>1137753
Yes.
Prussia was a mistake.
>>1137770
this desu
Is he the most based man who ever lived?
>yea Columbia, I'll turn myself in, but only if you let me build the prison.
>I'm bored in prison, let me get two poverty ball teams to play a private game for me.
>running for President? Not no more dude.
>hey kids, kill a cop? Here's some money.
>I'm on the run. Shit its cold, let me burn $2000000 for warmth.
nigga took banter into whole new level
>>1137624
Nigga was on the Forbes list.
>>1137612
There was a Colombian soapopera about him a few years ago. It had some funny/good moments, particularly the music when hes plotting something. This nigger had exotic animals in his estate too.
Tell me something interesting about your native language.
Linguists and linguistic hobbyists welcome.
>>1133994
Slovene has somewhere between 7 and 50 dialects (depends on who you ask) but there are a lot of smaller variations (there is a reason we have a saying "Every village has its voice."). The first records of a Slovene dialect come from around the year 1000, from our ealiest recorded text, the Freising manuscript, with the modern dialects mostly emerging after the 16th century; partly because of duchy borders, partly because of natural obstacles (first hills and valleys, later due to a swamp which cut off the...
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English is the only Indo-European language to preserve the Proto-Indo-European *w phoneme.
>>1134888
>*w phoneme
The star means the pronunciation is closest to w, right? Isn't that this, then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labio-velar_approximant?
>LOL, MCCARTHYISM AMIRITE GUYS?!!
Except this film and a lot of liberal pro commie stuff that has been declassified has proven McCarthy was right.
At this point they've gone from "THEY WERE NOT COMMUNISTS STOP MAKING FALSE ACCUSATIONS" to "They were Communists, so what? There's nothing wrong with that."
Reminds me of "BILL CLINTON IS A DEVOTED HUSBAND AND A GOOD CHRISTIAN MAN AND THESE FALSE ACCUSATIONS ARE A RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY" to "lol it was just a blowjob who cares, stop being...
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>>1132758
>this thread again
I love how you use the same pic every time
>>1132758
>liberal
>pro-commie
The 'ol "everything left of me is far left" viewpoint
>>1132758
If you were so buttblasted by that movie, why didn't you go watch the "Hail, Caesar!" (2015), which made fun of communist sympathizers in Hollywood?
Did this man indirectly make abrahamic religions?
>>1142755
Before the christards and jewish apologists rush in to try and claim otherwise, the answer is yes
Now for some popcorn.
It's probably more like humans chimps.
People think that evolution means humans came from chimps.
The reality is that there's a common ancestor.
The monotheistic religions of the Near East probably descended from Canaanite religion.
>>1142886
but Zoroastrianism is from Iran
I'm a bit confused about the Trinity.
>>1136255
Nohing to understand, it's a complete fabrication.
>>1136255
Fedora here
From what I understand, one facet of the Trinity can exist independently of the three, but two cannot exist without the third or it throws it into imbalance
A large part of the Trinity topic is feelings, so semantics are difficult
>>1136255
can you be any more specific?
Are castles the ulimate counter to mongols?
Stone walls didn't stop them in China.
>>1134423
No, internal politics and the natural flow of culture was. What was 'Russia' was almost fucked by a mongol scouting group, had it not been for the Khan's sudden death that withdrew them from the first of what would've been a series of landslide battles.
>>1134423
No, you just build a Siege Workshop and upgrade your battering rams to maximum.
Why did the soviet union collapse?
could it have been prevented?
how?
also just a reminder it your going to recourse to some argument about certain political and economic systems being doomed to inevitable failure, you can at least substantiate it with some kind of actual reasoning
>why
Socialism
>prevented
Not having socialism
>how
Capitalism
>>1140581
First post is best post.
>Why?
Price of oil, Polstroika/Glasnost informed Soviet citizens that their quality of life was pretty garbage compared to the Capitalist nations
>Preventable?
Unless you can find a way to make transnational trade markets irrelevant, no
For someone completely new to this board, name 3 books that you wish they would have read before joining.
It's a trick question. Once you join your reading days are over.
>>1141725
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
>>1141725
Hi I'm new too so I'll bump this.
Alright, which one of you did this?
Literally just downloaded that from the name alone
And by the way, this isn't a joke mod. It is a faithful reconstruction of every independent polity of the Holy Roman Empire c. 1444
>>1141547
Holy shit... Fucking Germans I swear.
Why do so many on /his/ prefer an aristocracy over a meritocracy or any other system more based on your birth-position than your own skill and talent?
I bet there got to be a logical explanation for it which I myself have failed to found.
>>1141423
This doesn't answer your question at all but I would just like to say that an aristocracy isn't the opposite of a meritocracy.
Since intelligence is roughly 80% inherited the upper class aren't equal to plebs only in birth right. That's why those families got to the top.
That's why you can have people getting appointed to important positions by virtue of nothing but birth(eg military leader) and have it work out fine
also
see: Darwin-Wedgwood family
>>1141423
/his/ is filled with religious reactionaries
>>1141477
>that's why those families got to the top
Maybe originally, but fortunes last generations, and heirs and heiresses getting free money does shit to improve their work ethic.
Theology threads/discussions are utterly pointless. There is nothing new to discover, debate, or otherwise entertain yourself with. It's just the same boring arguments that are held over, and over, and over again and anyone who disagrees is either called a nihilist, fedora,or atheist as if that means anything. If you have faith in something fine, but this constant arguing over minute details in poorly translated scripture is just spam.
>thinks Christian theology can reach an end
We're all sinners and nobody has found the perfect system.
We're talking about God here.
We can theorize and speculate, based on the information we have available (scripture), but nobody will 100% know until they're dead, or at the Second Coming of Christ.
Yeah but fedoraschirstcuckstipsfedorashorudofturincatholicchurchpedophilescandalmuslimsisismuhammedwasapedophilethejewsarebehindeverythingtheykilledjesusthegospelsareeyewitnessreportsconstantineisafilthytrannythatspanishfuckerisprobablyschizophrenicandsoisthatjapanesegirlwhokeepsinsistingthatjesuswastheantichristwiththatstupidimage
>>1141053
Said by someone who has no knowledge of theology. You know that theological thought has progressed since the middle ages. We have ideas generated by it that are new that didn't exist before.
Serious question, didn't he basically end all ethics debate?
No.
He's only relevant if you're an atheist.
>>1140812
He ended all debates concerning "objective" morality.
Now the only ethical question is how useful an idea is a given society at this particular moment in time. For instance he said Stoics is the best ethics if your society is constantly changing in uncontrollable ways (hence why it thrived in a time when Rome was having a new Emperor every 5 years and there were daily civil wars).
What are the legitimate arguments against empiricism and rationalism?
There's this guy named Kant who is pretty important and wrote a bunch of shit about that
>>1140860
Thanks for that.
>Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is the central figure in modern philosophy. He synthesized early modern rationalism and empiricism
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant/
Because it implies naturalism/materialism.
aka what we sense with our 5 senses is all there is.
And since that narrow view of scientism has been destroyed by metaphysics and supernatural events, so is reason/empiricism a flawed concept.
Empiricism seeks to enslave you in bounds and chains. You can study and analyse the painting, but don't question who painted it!
