At the end of “The A-Unicornist Replies. But is scientism still in the picture?” I point out that Mike D’s claim that philosophy is dependent on science stumbles, among other things, on the fact that the nature of scientific enquiry is defined philosophically: Jones says “science is defined as p.” P is a philosophical assertion about […]
Gödel's incompleteness theorems
“To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained.”
Ray Ingles provided this quote from “The Doctor” in my post “On Taking an Objective Approach to Inexplicable Events“. This is an interesting claim. It first begs interpretation. I take there to be the following two basic possibilities: (1) The rational person believes that every object, event or state of affairs has some explanation for why it […]
