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The Nature of Scepticism

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Dr Adequate
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02-16-2013 5:21 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Straggler
02-15-2013 1:54 PM

Is it paradoxical and subversive?
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Well yes and no: Russell was being sarcastic. His point is that this is just ordinary common sense unless one has a vested interest in being wrong.
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02-17-2013 1:50 PM 		Reply to: Message 7 by Straggler
02-16-2013 12:59 PM

Yes. I know. But presumably those with a more 'blessed are those who believe but do not see' approach to discerning what is real and what is not have a different take.
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But no-one ever does have that as a general approach. There are in effect only two kinds of people: there are skeptics, and then there are people who are skeptics except which they want to give some particular favored idea a free ride.
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02-19-2013 12:13 PM 		Reply to: Message 48 by kofh2u
02-18-2013 7:03 PM

Re: Evidence
It says the Heavens and Earth were CREATED.
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Every formless star and planet was void of a solid geometrical shapes, but all matter that is here today was CREATED then, in that instant.
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Not according to scientists.
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But in any case, if that was true, the passage might as well read: "In the beginning God created the Apple Macintosh", and you could still read it in such a way as to interpret it as being true. This is not a tribute to the wisdom of the Bible, but to your ability to read anything however you want.
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04-15-2013 12:08 PM 		Reply to: Message 148 by kofh2u
03-04-2013 11:50 AM

Re: ... Fundamentalist are those who refuse to acknowledge evidence...
Socrates, of course, doubted that postulate and said, "Belive nothing you hear and only half of what you see."
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Reference, please?
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04-15-2013 12:14 PM 		Reply to: Message 150 by kofh2u
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Re: ... Fundamentalist are those who refuse to acknowledge evidence...
Isn't that EXACTLY why Feynman says the Wave/particle observation is the fundamental issue for Physics in this next century???
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No.
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