/lit/ - Literature

>>11828592
First of all, what do you think scientism is?

>>11828592
it's retarded.

>>11828592
chubby chicks are considered disgusting

>>11828592
science can't explain everything

remember when he shit in that hat? how tf did that get buried so fast?

Also Dawkins clearly knows a lot about philosophy.

>>11828686
People tried to meme it, thus taking away its impact

>>11828698
cringe

>>11828698
I’d like to see someone prove him wrong.

>>11828741
Oh, it’s all gone quiet.

>>11828741
Do you not know what continental philosophy is either?

>>11828812
That’s not an argument son.

>>11828817
I’ll spell it out for you then retard. “Continental philosophy" is thus defined in terms of a family of philosophical traditions and influences rather than a geographic distinction. Dawkins might as well be complaining that the Copenhagen interpretation is region specific.

This board really is utter shit now

>>11828741
>the Manhattan Project? What kind of investigation of atomic power is limited to an island borough of New York?

>>11828834
I am loling. So are the ‘truths’ of continental philosophy still true in China?

>>11828870
Yeah true things are true everywhere dumbass. What do you even think continental philosophy is?

>>11828897
>true things are true everywhere
>continental philosophy is a thing

Make your mind up son

>>11828920
Learn what continental philosophy is you utter retard.

>>11828923
Is that even possible if I’m living in the US? Will I be allowed to join the secret club?

Scientism is limited by it's strict epistomology that invalidates itself.

>>11828932
Evidence please.

>>11828927
Just kill yourself retard there is no hope for you.

>>11828966
The assertion that only statements verifiable through empirical observation are true or meaningful cannot itself be verified through empirical observation.

>>11828973
Sure, now provide some empirical evidence in support of that please.

>>11828855
Kek

>>11828975
I don’t subscribe to scientism because I’m not retarded.

>>11828975
Can you provide empirical evidence that I should provide emprical evidence?

>>11828975
This is quite possibly the most retarded statement I've ever read, congratulations is this is bait

10/10

>>11828968
A rigorous argument straight out of the annals of continental philosophy no doubt

>>11828698
On Twitter, Dawkins speaks before he thinks. These are just ideas that came to his mind that he wants to discuss, not well thought-out personal manifestos. Nothing wrong with that, other than the smug tone he doesn't seem to be able to drop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz7AtVkjdmk

>>11829033
How am I supposed to rigorously argue with a retard who thinks continental philosophy is a secret club Americans can’t join? It would be as pointless as your life is.

>>11829008
You made the initial claim, so you’d better go first. Otherwise, I’ll just have to appeal to Hitchens’ razor.

>>11829117
I won't provide any empirical claims.
What I will do is to provide a logical inference.

1: It's true that empiricaly verifiable statements are the only true statement.
2: Statement 1 isn't dealing with empirical observation.
3 (1,2): If 1 and 2 then 1 is false.

Science is death.
All the proof you need in this thread.

>>11829138
I’m not asking for logical trickery, but some no-shit evidence that there are truths that science cannot reach.

In the meantime, see pic.

>>11828897
>Writes "continental" with quotes
>leaves them out for "Chinese"
What fucking kike wrote this?

>>11829178
Depends on your definition of science. Do you consider logic a part of science?

To make this /lit/ related, are there any good books on how a nation like America went from, as Tocqueville noticed, having no interest in abstract scientific endeavors to one that literally worships it as a religion?

>>11829178
>Science is based on math
>math is incomplete
Scientists btfo

>>11829178
Science is the extricate of language. And if "language is the house of the Truth of Being," then the house is also that clearing which has already divided us from nature - and therefore Being.
Only mythic formulations of words can think such things. Nature is the fulcrum of our difference, and science attempts to realise this fulcrum through an extrication of nature into its materiality at every point. Hence its total misunderstanding, and destructive essence, to the point that it becomes an ouroboros.
All of the great technologies of our time even have this form enmeshed within their function, suggesting the extent to which science remains within the dominion of sacrifice to an unknown.

>>11828698
Why couldnt he just do a google search jfc

In short, Science is the extrication of Ouroboros from his house of being.

>>11828592
It is incompatible with modern evolutionary theory and has unwitting Gnostic metaphysical commitments.
Science cannot explain everything. We see through a glass, darkly.

>>11828677
This must really fuck with the neoliberal brain

>>11828592
It's near impossible to explain a fetish. We just like it.

>>11829204
I feel an intense, profound sense of pity and compassion for women that like the minions. It's like I can just tell that they are incredibly stupid yet innocent and feminine women who probably just want to escape from the reality of their abusive spouses/parents into a world that fits their subconscious longing to bear and care for children.

>>11829269
I don't think you know what neoliberal means
Kek

>>11829311
>to the ghost in the shell
>so have you stopped abusing your wife yet

>>11829204
Americans worship science??
Look up a couple clips of their Secretary of education and tell me what you think.

Come back to the flock wayward sheep