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AdminNem Inactive Member |
You know the drill... Forum, thread, author, message number.
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Phat Member Posts: 18299 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
Author: Archer Opterix
Forum: Is It Science? Thread:On the philosophy of, well, philosophy ( } Post #:210 Archer takes a moment to explain how seemingly unrelated fields of knowledge were later woven together and how a Doctor of philosophy can be a modern Renaissance Man! Well done!
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Percy Member Posts: 22480 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
Wow!
Read this one folks, you won't regret it! --Percy
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Jon Inactive Member |
SECOND to Archer's post! Beautiful!
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Archer Opteryx Member (Idle past 3619 days) Posts: 1811 From: East Asia Joined: |
I nominate Modulous for an entire series of posts in the Philosophy of Philosophy thread. A good place to start might be with this one:
Modulous'The Philosopy of, well, Philosophy' Message 136 - 2007.11.01 http://EvC Forum: On The Philosophy of, well, Philosophy -->EvC Forum: On The Philosophy of, well, Philosophy This thread has brought out some fine writing from anglagard and subbie, too, but Modulous has done some truly heavy lifting here. His discussion is always cogent, well supported, precise in terminology and consistent in presence. This is the sort of introduction to the subject that people pay tuition, if need be, to benefit from. It deserves wide attention. It's especially fortunate for us to have a science specialist treating this subject. That perspective is needed in this forum and he is eminently qualified to supply it. Mod: many thanks. _________ Edited by Archer Opterix, : URL. Edited by Archer Opterix, : brev.
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purpledawn Member (Idle past 3479 days) Posts: 4453 From: Indiana Joined: |
Seconded!
Nicely done Mod.
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Modulous Member Posts: 7801 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
I thank you and purple for the nomination. But it wasn't that that made me smile it was
Mod: many thanks. You're welcome. And thank you again.
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NosyNed Member Posts: 9003 From: Canada Joined: |
Message 29
Chiroptera produces another one of those posts that should be saved for the next time this kind of issue comes up. He takes time to spell it out but doesn't use more words than necessary.
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jar Member (Idle past 415 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Seconded. You beat me again, Sir.
Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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Chiroptera Inactive Member |
Thanks, guys. I'm always pleased when someone enjoys the products of my efforts.
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Jon Inactive Member |
Message 247. Crash demonstrates why it is completely possible for even scientic atheist folk to resort to using logical fallacies when support runs dry for their argument. Not in the spirit of POTM, text hidden Edited by AdminModulous, : as above (so below...) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ En el mundo hay multitud de idiomas, y cada uno tiene su propio significado. - I Corintios 14:10_ _ _ _ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A devout people with its back to the wall can be pushed deeper and deeper into hardening religious nativism, in the end even preferring national suicide to religious compromise. - Colin Wells Sailing from Byzantium_ _ _ _ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Philosophy] stands behind everything. It is the loom behind the fabric, the place you arrive when you trace the threads back to their source. It is where you question everything you think you know and seek every truth to be had. - Archer Opterix [msg=-11,-316,210]
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1488 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
It's not a fallacious argument. If you define a property as "all-red", where a given set has the property "all-red" if all of its members are red, then the union of a set that has the "all-red" property with a set that has the opposite property "not-all-red" winds up having the property "not-all-red", even though that looks like the fallacy of hasty generalization. It's actually a consequence of the fact that something defined as a universal property has an opposite property that, itself, is not universal. In other words the opposite of "all" is "some", not "none." Nontheless, Jon, it's wrong of you to try to bring the argument here in such a sarcastic way. If you'd like to actually address the post you're referring to, that would be great, and I can move this material over to that thread. You should delete your post, it's a misuse of the POTM thread and a violation of the forum guidelines. You should really know better. {Not POTM forum material. Text "hidden". Use "Peek" to see it. Jon's message is on shakey ground for the POTM forum. Perhaps it should be "hidden" also. - Adminnemooseus} I support the hiding of this post. I only intended that it should have been visible as long as Jon's was. -Crash Edited by crashfrog, : No reason given. Edited by Adminnemooseus, : See above. Edited by crashfrog, : No reason given.
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Archer Opteryx Member (Idle past 3619 days) Posts: 1811 From: East Asia Joined: |
Thanks to Phat, Percy and Jon--and my apologies for being tardy in saying so.
A kinship exists among all people who seek to know. We choose our specialties as our gifts and temperaments dictate, but the discoveries we make are for the benefit of all. I treasure that kinship. Archer All species are transitional.
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Percy Member Posts: 22480 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
The best explanation of entropy and thermodynamics I've ever seen:
The math is mostly simple, integrals are required only once that I noticed. If you've always wanted to understand thermodynamics, now's your chance. This post is such a wonderful reference that we need a permanent link to it somewhere. The reference library would be a good place, but changes to it are difficult to accomodate with the current software, so hopefully we'll remember this post when it becomes easier to maintain pages of reference links. Parenthetically to Rrhain: Sears/Zemansky? Didn't the ancient Romans use that text book? --Percy
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petrophysics1 Inactive Member |
The best explanation of entropy and thermodynamics I've ever seen I'll give a second on that, very well done.
Parenthetically to Rrhain: Sears/Zemansky? Didn't the ancient Romans use that text book? It would seem so. That rang a bell so went to the bookcase and pulled my 1st year Physics text. It is Modern College Physics by Richards, Sears,Wehr, and Zemansky second printing March 1964 (copywrite 1962). God, I'm getting old! The price I paid for it is stamped on the inside cover, can you believe........$15.95.
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