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"I always rely on perceptual evidence" so you are anti-intellectual.. or are you just trolling?
by cam_l 12y ago
"I always rely on perceptual evidence"
so you are anti-intellectual.. or are you just trolling?
- javert 12y agoTo believe something without perceptual eveidence is to believe it blindly, just because somebody says so. We should not believe our intellectuals blindly, just because they say so. But that isn't an anti-intellectual stance. An anti-intellectual attitude would willfully dismiss what intellectuals say even when they do present perceptual evidence. As an aside, note that it is perceptual evidence that intellectuals rely on themselves to get their conclusions. This is particularly obvious in science (e.g. experimental method), but all actual knowledge is knowledge about reality and that means all actual knowledge is rooted in perceptual evidence.
- javert 12y agoI like how somebody downvoted this, but didn't bother to correct the mistake the presumably believed they saw in my reasoning. That is anti-intellectualism.