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Can you briefly explain or point to something brief that explains the specific things that are significantly harmful or incorrect with relation to Descartes' Di
by tossacct 14y ago
Can you briefly explain or point to something brief that explains the specific things that are significantly harmful or incorrect with relation to Descartes' Discourse on Method?
I agree with you that dogmatism is probably a negative thing, unless the dogmatism enforces being non-dogmatic. My shallow reading of Popper and Descartes seems to indicate that they are dogmatic about not being dogmatic, so I really quite like their dogma.
Any other problems with reductionism would be especially interesting.
Any answers to the classic regress argument would also be appreciated, I am not very clever and neither are my acquaintances - we haven't seemed to find anyone to convince us why "A proves B" is epistemically useful...though surely there is some argument
[C PROVES why "A proves B"], and surely some argument
{D PROVES why [C proves why "A proves B"]}, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regress_argument http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regress_argument
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Tortoise_Said_to_Achilles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Tortoise_Said_to_Achil...
- davesims 14y agoWell said. I fear your humility may be more like that of Socrates, and I'm about to be hoisted on the petard of my own unexposed ignorance. I have to run at the moment but I'll come back to this tomorrow and hopefully have something useful to contribute. Thanks for the parley!