Americans are dumb
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Originally Posted by magician,Feb 19 2008, 02:32 PM
I always find it fascinating when people who write about ignorance cite the belief that the sun revolves about the earth as an example. Evidently they've heard about Galileo Galilei's theory of heliocentrism (although it should properly be credited to Nicolaus Copernicus) and find the competing belief in geocentrism (mainly credited to Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)) to pale by comparison.
How sad that they seem never to have heard of Albert Einstein: his theory of relativity maintains that both views are equally valid; one should select one view over the other only as a matter of convenience for the task at hand.
Sigh.
How sad that they seem never to have heard of Albert Einstein: his theory of relativity maintains that both views are equally valid; one should select one view over the other only as a matter of convenience for the task at hand.
Sigh.
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Wow "Folk Epistemology" as not only a credo, but actually stated on the web. Folk epistemology and metaphysics would bring us back(?) to animism and to the same consensus of the stupid that forced the development of science.
And forget Kant, if anything we are firmly stuck in Descartes. Whitehead is my philosopher of choice, but I have absolutely no hope that anything he postulated will ever get into the pop culture like pseudo-relativism.
And forget Kant, if anything we are firmly stuck in Descartes. Whitehead is my philosopher of choice, but I have absolutely no hope that anything he postulated will ever get into the pop culture like pseudo-relativism.
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Originally Posted by INTJ,Feb 26 2008, 06:25 PM
Wow "Folk Epistemology" as not only a credo, but actually stated on the web. Folk epistemology and metaphysics would bring us back(?) to animism and to the same consensus of the stupid that forced the development of science.
And forget Kant, if anything we are firmly stuck in Descartes. Whitehead is my philosopher of choice, but I have absolutely no hope that anything he postulated will ever get into the pop culture like pseudo-relativism.
And forget Kant, if anything we are firmly stuck in Descartes. Whitehead is my philosopher of choice, but I have absolutely no hope that anything he postulated will ever get into the pop culture like pseudo-relativism.
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Originally Posted by Scot,Feb 27 2008, 09:02 AM
Who the **** has time to read that....plus all of you asshole's contributions were equally boring ... 
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Originally Posted by vtec9,Feb 27 2008, 10:01 AM
Thank you for your excellent contribution, and for making this thread worthwhile.
your stupid (c_unit would understand..... C_unit C_unit where for out thou c_unit)