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Skepticism is never impoverishing.
by burgerbrain 16y ago
Skepticism is never impoverishing.
- dhimes 16y agoThis was rejection, not skepticism, despite what he called it.
- burgerbrain 16y agoOnly RMS is in a position to say how much RMS actually considered the points raised.
- dhimes 16y agoI'm not as generous as you are in allowing that this just might be an issue of communication. As I understand it, he is a lawyer and also quite clever. I believe that he knew how it would be interpreted when he wrote it.
- billswift 16y agoA rational skepticism is necessary for science to work at all. But radical skepticism is so impoverishing a philosophy that no one, except possibly a few nuts, believes it any longer. And there are several gradations in between.
- scott_s 16y agoThere is a difference between skepticism and blind rejection. Distinguishing between the two in yourself, I have found, can be difficult because it requires significant and constant introspection.